On May 31, 2025, at approximately 4:05 A.M., a deputy with the Chisago County Sheriff's Office was sitting stationary at the County Hibhway building in Harris, within Chisago County, Minnesota. He observed a small white passenger car traveling northbound on Forest Boulevard driving very slowly in front of him. As the deputy observed the car, it slowly started to veer onto the shoulder of the road and then came to a stop briefly before turning eastbound onto 438th Street. As the vehicle slowly turned off 438th Street, it pulled to the side of a business at [ADDRESS REDACTED]. The deputy thought this was odd because it was 4:00 in the morning and the business was closed.
The deputy went to investigate the vehicle. As the deputy pulled up behind the vehicle and parked, the deputy did not have his emergency lights activated. He approached the vehicle on the passengeer side and could see there was a male inside who was crawling around the vehicle and acting very strange. The deputy made contact with the male, who was later identified as BRIAN DEAN QUALLEY, [DOB REDACTED] ("the Defendant"). When the deputy made contact with the Defendant, his eyes were very red, watery, and bloodshot.
He appeared to be sweating, and the temperature was approximately 52 degrees at the time that the deputy made contact with the Defendant. The deputy asked the Defendant to exit the vehicle to do standardized field sobriety tests, as the deputy noticed the Defendant was obviously sweating very profusely and talking very quickly. When the Defendant exited the vehicle, the deputy noticed that the Defendant's gait was unsteady, and he was swaying as the two were talking. The deputy asked the Defendant to perform some standardized field sobriety tests, during which the Defendant showed signs of impairment.
The deputy ultimately placed the Defendant under arrest for DWI. The deputy obtained a search warrant for a blood draw, and transported the Defendant to M Health Fairview Wyoming Hospital for the blood draw. While awaiting the phlebotomist at the hospital, the Defendant, completely unprovoked, stated that he at one point had snorted a line of what he thought was cocaine, but it could have possibly been methamphetamine because the Defendant felt his nose was burning after he snorted it. The Defendant's blood was ultimately drawn by a phlebotomist at the hospital and was sent to the BCA for testing.
The BCA's testing of the Defendant's blood revealed that the Defendant had amphetamine and methamphetamine in his system. The Defendant also has a qualified prior impaired driving incident within the ten years immediately preceding this offense in Court File No. 58-CR-20-59.
