St. Cloud Lawmaker Booked After Crash

A booking list is not a criminal complaint, and the 7 p.m. roster still has no court file number. A prior DWI can supply the aggravating factor on a third-degree count, but the complaint has not said that yet. The 2023 Kanabec County guilty plea is a conviction, and Wednesday's crash is not.

Daniel Wolgamott, a 36-year-old DFL state representative from St. Cloud, was booked into the Stearns County Jail on Wednesday night after a crash on 13th Street North.

Officers were called at 7:49 p.m. to a stalled vehicle blocking the 1300 block. Police say the car he was driving was headed east, alcohol was a factor, and it hit a legally parked car. A 37-year-old man in that car was taken to St. Cloud Hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening. No one else was hurt.

Wolgamott was arrested at 9:09 p.m. The roster lists three allegations: criminal vehicular operation causing bodily harm while under the influence of alcohol, third-degree driving while impaired with one aggravating factor, and driving under the influence of alcohol. A criminal complaint had not been written as of Thursday morning, and a roster update at 7 p.m. Thursday still showed no court docket number.

He pleaded guilty in September 2023 to a fourth-degree DWI in Kanabec County from a July 7 stop near Mora. A trooper measured his blood alcohol level at 0.09. A judge stayed a 45-day jail sentence, fined him $400, and put him on two years of probation. He was discharged from probation in September 2025. He did not seek another House term. He failed to get the DFL endorsement for state auditor, was not on the August primary ballot, and his term ends in January.

All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.