Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek's son, Ryan Stanek, 23, rear ended and severely damaged a Brooklyn Center fire truck late Thursday night, prompting a search of his vehicle where authorities found marijuana. The incident happened in Brooklyn Center on the 3900 block of 58 th Avenue North around 1:30 a.m.
“Upon initially arriving on scene, I was able to speak with the fire fighters who stated that they were okay and after speaking with the fire fighters they pointed to a male who was walking around the truck [Ryan Stanek],” an incident report states.
Ryan told officers he did not know how or why he had hit the fire truck, and said that he'd been “traveling forward and that because the fire truck was slightly impeding the lane of traffic in which he was driving, he had hit it.”
The incident report states Ryan provided no information regarding what he was doing at the time he was driving and struck the Brooklyn Center fire truck, which was about to leave the scene of a previous call.