On May 2, 2025, at approximately 5:13 P.M., Officer Jungles with the Sauk Centre Police Department was dispatched to Westside Liquor located at [ADDRESS REDACTED], City of Sauk Centre, County of Stearns, State of Minnesota for an intoxicated driver. Dispatch advised Officer Jungles that there was a white Dodge Ram currently parked in the parking lot and the male occupant was drinking a bottle of vodka. At the time this complaint was aired from dispatch, Officer Jungles was standing outside of his squad car at a nearby business and observed the white Dodge Ram leaving the lot, accelerating loudly and slam on the breaks.
Officer Jungles was able to observe the Dodge Ram travel to the Sauk River Inn and Suites located just across 12th Street South, still in the City of Sauk Centre. Officer Jungles conducted a traffic stop on the truck that was bearing Georgia license RXB7439 and made contact with the driver and sole occupant. Officer Jungles asked the driver for his driver's license and was handed a bank card. The driver ultimately gave Office Jungles his Georgia [DL# REDACTED] him as Justin Akheem Hinds, [DOB REDACTED], the defendant herein.
The defendant admitted that he was at Westside Liquor. Officer Jungles observed a nearly empty bottle of Jose Cuervo in the center console, and he could smell a strong odor of alcohol coming from inside the truck. Officer Jungles also observed the driver to have watery, blood shot eyes. Officer Jungles had the defendant complete field sobriety testing showing additional indicators of impairment. Officer Jungles attempted to administer a preliminary breath test (PBT); however the first three attempts, the defendant was not making a tight seal around the straw causing a "no go." On the fourth attempt the PBT showed an alcohol concentration of.22. The defendant was placed under arrest.
Once at the Sauk Centre Police Department, Officer Jungles read the breath test advisory which the defendant understood. A telephone was made available to the defendant to contact an attorney. Rather than contacting an attorney, the defendant made multiple other phone calls. While on the phone, the defendant admitted to drinking but not driving. At 6:44 P.M., the defendant would not provide a breath sample and was refusing the test. Complainant has reason to believe and does believe that all of the above information is true and correct.
