On May 26, 2026 officers from the Cloquet Police Department responded to a residential address on 16th Street in Cloquet. Officers were looking for a person who had multiple active arrest warrants and had information that he was staying at the residence. Officers approached and saw a male and a female in the driveway reaching into a Nissan Versa with VA plate TAA1909. Officers attached the vehicle to the call. Officers approached to see if the male was the party with the warrant and made contact with Sarah Elizabeth May Lone [DOB REDACTED], hereinafter Defendant and the male party, identified as Alexander Michael LaFave [DOB REDACTED]. Officers spoke with Lone and LaFave as well as a male leaning out a second story window about the male party they were looking for.
As the officers were speaking with the parties they learned from dispatch that the vehicle was reported stolen out of Dane County, Wisconsin. Lone was detained and officers spoke with LaFave who was discovered to have a warrant as well and taken into custody. Defendant got the officer’s attention and said that LaFave had nothing to do with it. Officers confirmed that the VIN on the vehicle matched the reported stolen vehicle. Defendant was read a Miranda advisory and spoke to officers. She told officers that a Glen Thommesen rented the car and that she was staying with him at the hotel and that he had let her drive the vehicle.
She stated that she had been driving the vehicle for a couple weeks, had driven to the 16th street address, was in possession of the keys and that most of the items in the vehicle were hers. Officers called for a tow and inventoried the vehicle. In the center console of the vehicle officers located a Ziploc baggie filled with a white powder substance which later field tested positive for the presence of Fentanyl with a field weight of 46 grams. Officers also located a black box with a scale, hypodermic needles and a baggie with a white powder-like substance that field tested positive for the presence of Fentanyl with a field weight of 11.48 grams.
Also, in the trunk a third baggie with a white powder substance that field tested positive for the presence of Fentanyl with a field weight of 4.15 grams. In total, approximately 61 grams of suspected Fentanyl was located in the vehicle.
