A 25-year-old Woodbury woman stopped for speeding in Inver Grove Heights is accused of scratching, kicking and trying to bite an officer and chipping another officer’s tooth, according to the complaint.
A witness had reported a lone woman driving 90 mph and changing lanes without a blinker. The officer clocked the vehicle at 78 mph in a 50 mph zone heading west from Highway 52. The driver began to get out as soon as it stopped. The officer saw that the driver’s side airbags had deployed.
The driver, Anya Katerina Lynn, said she was not hurt, that she “shouldn’t be driving” and that she had crashed a mile or two away. She said she was driving down from Duluth after stopping at a liquor store and “had a couple too many beers,” according to the complaint. The officer smelled a strong odor of alcohol. She refused field sobriety tests and was arrested on suspicion of DWI.
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After the officer handcuffed her, Lynn asked to urinate at the side of the road. When he said no, the complaint says, she walked away while he tried to double-lock the cuffs. She tried to grab his belt and fell onto the grass. On the ground she dug her nails into the back of his hands, scratched him and pinched his legs and inner thighs. She grabbed his holstered gun and her hand had to be pulled off it, the officer reported. Then she kicked him in the back and tried to bite him. He had multiple cuts that broke the skin and drew blood.
She was taken to a hospital for medical clearance after the crash. A blood draw was done under a search warrant with results pending, according to the complaint. As two officers moved her to a squad car she kicked and struck the second officer in the jaw with her knee, chipping his tooth. Officers found a “shooter” of alcohol in her vehicle. The complaint lists two earlier DWI convictions from 2023.
Lynn is charged in Dakota County District Court in a complaint filed Nov. 10 with two counts of fourth-degree assault of a peace officer causing demonstrable bodily harm. Each is a felony that carries up to three years in prison or a fine of $1,800 to $6,000 or both. She is also charged with second-degree DWI with aggravating factors, a gross misdemeanor that carries up to one year or a fine of $900 to $3,000 or both.
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Jurisdictional Context
Dakota County, immediately south of Saint Paul, is Minnesota’s third-largest county by population. The Dakota County Attorney’s Office prosecutes felonies through the First Judicial District; cases are heard at the Dakota County Judicial Center in Hastings.
