On June 6, 2026, at approximately 11:24 P.M., Officer Steiner with the Anoka Police Department was working a TZD overtime detail, traveling westbound on Main Street near Northdale Boulevard, in the City of Coon Rapids, Anoka County, Minnesota. The officer noticed a vehicle bearing MN license plate [PLATE REDACTED] that made a lane change from the right lane to the right hand turn lane without signaling. The officer stopped the vehicle and made contact with the driver, later identified as Dylan John Loken, [DOB REDACTED], the defendant herein.
The officer believed that defendant was a police officer because he was wearing an external carrier vest, badge, radio, body camera and multiple magazines on the vest. Defendant was wearing tactical style pants with a duty belt on them. Defendant advised that he works for O'Brien and Associates who contracts as security and loss prevention for the Menards location near the stop location. Defendant said that there was a vehicle in the Menards parking lot that he was requested to check out. The officer noticed that Menards was closed.
The officer asked defendant if he was working right now, and defendant said that he was. Defendant said he received a call from the general manager at that store requesting to check on this vehicle that was parked in the parking lot. The officer asked defendant if he was carrying, and defendant advised that he was. Defendant provided the officer a valid Wisconsin permit to carry. Defendant advised that he did not have a permit to carry in Minnesota. The officer found that Wisconsin does not have reciprocity in Minnesota for their permits to carry.
When asked why he was wearing a fully kitted vest, defendant said that this is his normal work attire. Defendant advised that he sometimes carries while at work in Menards and that the Menards location asks him personally to carry a firearm when there are certain threats in the Coon Rapids community. When asked about his body worn camera, defendant said it was issued to him through the company he works for, O'Brien and Associates. There was a badge in the upper left corner of his vest that said, "Loss Prevention Officer." Defendant pulled up a text thread with him and his assistant manager, K. O. Officers observed that defendant had been texting K. O. Several times without an answer.
At no point in time did she text defendant to come to the location. The officer called K. O. And found that there should not be any security guards at the location as it was closed, and security guards do not carry firearms. K. O. Said that from time to time their loss prevention staff does wear vests, but they have a large name plate on the back of the vest that says, "security." The officer observed that defendant had taken the security name plate off of his vest. K. O. Advised that defendant has been involved with incidents like this in the past, and defendant does not even work at the Coon Rapids Menards location.
