A Woodbury man is accused of spitting in a Cottage Grove police officer’s face while the officer tried to buckle him into a squad car after he refused sobriety and chemical tests, according to the complaint.
The offenses are alleged to have occurred on or about Nov. 5, 2026. The complaint lists three counts: felony fourth-degree assault of a peace officer for throwing or transferring bodily fluids, which carries up to three years or a $6,000 fine or both; gross misdemeanor DWI test refusal, which carries up to 364 days or a $3,000 fine or both; and misdemeanor theft, which carries up to 90 days or a $1,000 fine or both.
Oluwakorede Amusan, 37, is charged in Washington County District Court with those three counts. The complaint was filed Nov. 6.
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According to the complaint, officers responded to a shoplifting call at the Walmart on East Point Douglas Road South in Cottage Grove on Nov. 5. An officer stopped a vehicle matching the description given by the store and saw Walmart bags holding pizza in the back seat, which matched some of the items reported stolen.
The driver cracked the window and told the officer, “Man, I don’t trust you; this is as far as I’m going to give you.” The officer told him he was being detained for theft. Other officers arrived and arrested Amusan. An officer smelled alcohol on him. The complaint says he yelled about seemingly random topics and told officers, “Kill me.” Officers searched the vehicle and recovered items reported stolen from Walmart.
Because of his behavior, officers decided to do field sobriety tests at the police department. The complaint says Amusan yelled threats at the arresting officer on the drive there. At the department he refused field sobriety testing. He agreed to a breath test but then said he would spit on the officer when brought into the breath test room.
The officer instead got a search warrant signed by a judge for a blood or urine sample. In the booking room Amusan kept making threatening statements, including that he would spit in the officer’s face. He also refused to give a blood or urine sample.
As the officer tried to buckle Amusan into the squad car for the ride to jail, Amusan spit in the officer’s face, the complaint says. Some of the saliva went into the officer’s mouth.
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Jurisdictional Context
Washington County, on the eastern edge of the Twin Cities metro, is served by the Washington County Attorney’s Office through the Tenth Judicial District. Felony cases are heard at the Washington County Government Center in Stillwater.
