Sara Elaine Wagner

On or about November 3, 2025, at approximately 10:24 AM a Blaine Police officer was on routine patrol and observed a vehicle with expired registration bearing MN license plate [PLATE REDACTED]. The officer also observed the vehicle cross over the white fog line multiple times in a short distance. The officer conducted a traffic stop near the intersection of Naples St and 91st Ave NE, Blaine, Anoka County and identified the driver as SARA ELAINE WAGNER [DOB REDACTED], Defendant herein. Defendant had two cats in the vehicle with her and told officers that one of them was having a medical emergency.

While assisting Defendant with her cat, officers observed multiple torch lighters and a metal spoon on the floorboard of the vehicle, items known to officers to be commonly used for smoking narcotics. Defendant told officers she lives out of her vehicle and admitted to using methamphetamine the night before. A K-9 Officer was called to the scene and alerted to the presence of narcotics in the vehicle. While officers were searching the vehicle Defendant advised there was methamphetamine in a purple pencil pouch-like bag, inside the vehicle.

Officers located the pencil bag in a backpack on the passenger seat, inside the bag was a small plastic bag containing a white crystal-like substance. There was also another small plastic bag with a brownish, crystal-like substance found in a pink and black purse in the truck of the vehicle. The Midwest Regional Forensic Laboratory later tested the substances and found the white crystal substance to be 2.393 grams of methamphetamine, and the brownish substance to be 0.196 grams of methamphetamine.