Devan Mackenzie Dyer

At around 5:23 PM on March 1, 2026, officers responded to a slumper at the intersection of Rice Street and University Avenue, St. Paul, Ramsey County. The driver had sat through multiple light cycles. Officers found DEVAN MACKENZIE DYER [DOB REDACTED] asleep in the driver’s seat of a running Ford Expedition bearing Minnesota license plates 6NC735. Dyer did not respond to officers outside the Expedition. Officers broke the driver’s side window and unlocked the door to check on Dyer. Dyer did not wake up when the window was broken.

Dyer woke up when the door was opened. Dyer’s eyes were bloodshot and watery, and his pupils were constricted. The veins in Dyer’s hands were blown out. Dyer said he fell asleep. Dyer was removed from the Expedition for standardized field sobriety tests. Dyer fared poorly on the tests and was arrested. Officers found a bag of pills and drugs and a hypodermic needle in Dyer’s pants. Officers obtained a search warrant to collect a urine or blood sample from Dyer. Dyer refused to provide a sample of either.

The contents of 3 of the bags recovered from Dyer tested positive for the presence of methamphetamine and weighed a combined total of 8.06 grams. The contents of a fourth bag tested positive for the presence of cocaine and weighed 0.84 grams. On October 26, 2017, Dyer was sentenced on a gross misdemeanor DWI in Dakota County District Court file 19HA-CR-17-1891. Dyer has 5 prior felony drug convictions.