{"id":31821,"date":"2026-06-05T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/?p=31821"},"modified":"2026-06-05T05:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:01:00","slug":"thief-river-falls-man-held-in-dwi-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/thief-river-falls-man-held-in-dwi-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Thief River Falls Man Held In DWI Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Thief River Falls Man Held In DWI Case<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Thief River Falls<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trfnews.i234.me<\/a>) \u2014 A man is being held in the Pennington County Jail after a DWI case was filed in District Court.<\/p>\n<p>According to jail records, <strong>Djay Gruette<\/strong> was taken into custody on June 4, 2026. He is listed as being held at the Pennington County Jail.<\/p>\n<p>Records show the case is filed under case number <strong>26320881<\/strong>. The listed court branch is the District Court.<\/p>\n<h2>DWI Charges Listed In Court Records<\/h2>\n<p>Gruette faces three misdemeanor-level charges tied to driving while impaired allegations.<\/p>\n<p>The first charge is <strong>Fourth-Degree Driving While Impaired<\/strong>. That charge is listed under Minnesota Statute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revisor.mn.gov\/statutes\/cite\/169A.27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">169A.27.1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A second charge alleges operation of a motor vehicle with an alcohol concentration of 0.08 or more within two hours. That charge is listed under Minnesota Statute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revisor.mn.gov\/statutes\/cite\/169A.20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">169A.20.1(5)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin: 25px 0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GruetteDjay.jpg\" alt=\"Djay Gruette mugshot\" \/><em>Djay Gruette booking image.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A third charge alleges operation of a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. That charge is listed under Minnesota Statute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revisor.mn.gov\/statutes\/cite\/169A.20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">169A.20.1(1)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Jail Booking Details<\/h2>\n<p>Booking information lists Gruette as 5 feet, 10 inches tall and 210 pounds. Records list brown hair and blue eyes.<\/p>\n<p>The listed bail or fine amount is <strong>$0.00<\/strong>. No court date was listed in the booking details provided.<\/p>\n<p>All charges are accusations at this stage. Gruette is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.<\/p>\n<p>The case remains assigned to the District Court. More court details may become available as the case moves forward.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m Chris Harper reporting for <a href=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TRF News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Thief River Falls man is being held in Pennington County Jail after DWI charges tied to a June 2026 court case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wpscp_schedule_draft_date":"","_wpscp_schedule_republish_date":"","_wpscppro_advance_schedule":false,"_wpscppro_advance_schedule_date":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[16518],"tags":[17733,871,883,827,3148,151,11819,824,825],"class_list":["post-31821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recently-booked","tag-booked","tag-case","tag-dwi","tag-falls","tag-held","tag-man","tag-recently","tag-river","tag-thief","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31823,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31821\/revisions\/31823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}