Investigation into Savage Moped Accident Leads to Charges Over 1 Year Later

Lisa Raley was waiting for her son, Brett Raley to come home last year when she heard pounding on the door, she told Patch in May 2012.

"I thought it was Brett and his friend Timmy, playing a joke on me. Just last week, his sister and I came home in the evening when they were upstairs in the living room and (we) pounded on the front door, and startled them," she said.

At the door were Burnsville police officers, who had come to inform her that her son had died early that morning when the moped he was on crashed into a fence in Savage, Patch reported. The Burnsville resident and former Burnsville High School student was 18 years old.

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“Spires allegedly admitted to providing alcohol to Raley earlier in the day and to moving the moped after the crash. Spires also never called 911 after the crash and allegedly changed his clothes between the time of the crash and officers’ arrival. Spires initially said that he wasn’t on the moped, but later said he was riding on the back while Raley drove. The report states that Spires admitted to lying about several aspects of the case in the hours after the crash, but that he never wavered in claiming that Raley was driving at the time of the crash.”

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