Sauk Rapids mayor arrested on suspicion of DWI
SAUK RAPIDS, Minn. (AP) — The new mayor of the central Minnesota city of Sauk Rapids is facing a drunken driving charge.
Police Chief Perry Beise tells the St. Cloud Times that Mayor Brad Gunderson was arrested on Sunday afternoon after crashing the vehicle he was driving and failing a preliminary breath test. Nobody was injured in the crash.
The chief says the mayor was taken home and dropped off in the care of a sober person and was not booked into jail.
Gunderson has not yet been charged. Authorities are waiting on lab test results.
The 48-year-old Gunderson is in the first months of his first term as mayor. He declined to comment when reached by The Associated Press on Monday night.
