A woman is facing criminal charges months after the crash in southwestern Minnesota that seriously injured 30-year-old Nobles County Sheriff's Deputy Arnold "Logan" Waldner .

The driver, a 63-year-old woman from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is charged with criminal vehicular operation in connection to the crash on the afternoon of April 13, 2025.

According to the criminal complaint filed last last month, she collided with Waldner's squad car on Interstate 90 in Dewald Township, just west of Worthington near the Iowa border.

Waldner was at the scene to assist a Minnesota State Patrol trooper in a reconstruction of another crash on the interstate and was parked at the time with his emergency lights activated.

The suspect denied being on her cellphone or under the influence of drugs or

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