A suspected drunken driver who crashed his pickup truck head-on into an SUV on Saturday morning — killing an Apple Valley couple — had been discharged from probation for a previous DWI five days prior, court records show.

Seth John Nechville, 28, of Kenyon, Minn., was charged Tuesday in Dakota County District Court with two counts of criminal vehicular homicide and one count of second-degree driving while impaired in connection with the crash on Minnesota 56 just north of the Cannon River in Randolph that killed Peter Foxvog Olson, 68, and Patricia Ann Olson, 49.

Seth John Nechville (Courtesy of the Dakota County Attorney’s Office)

Nechville remained jailed Tuesday in lieu of $500,000 bail, or $300,000 with conditions. Prosecutors wrote in a court document requesting the high bail that he “blew above the legal limit on a portable breath test” taken at the crash scene and “poses a substantial risk to public safety.”

An attorney is not listed in the court file.

Court records show that Nechville was convicted of drunken driving in 2019 and 2023. He’s been convicted of speeding nine times, driving after his license was revoked twice and once each for careless driving and failing to drive with due care.

Nechville was sentenced to two weeks of home monitoring and two years of probation for the 2023 DWI. He was discharged from probation on Sept. 1.

According to Tuesday’s criminal complaint, State Patrol troopers were dispatched to the crash about 11:05 a.m. Sept. 6 and found the Olsons’ GMC Terrain “on fire with catastrophic front-end damage.”

Motorists had stopped and removed the couple from the SUV. Despite lifesaving measures, they were pronounced dead at the scene.

Nechville’s Dodge Ram pickup truck also had significant front-end damage, and was facing northbound in the southbound lane of Minnesota 56. Officers saw brake marks on the highway indicating that he had been traveling north on the southbound side of the highway.

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Troopers spoke with Nechville, who gave various versions as to where he was headed and where he was coming from. He smelled of alcohol and his eyes were bloodshot and watery. He denied consuming alcohol the night prior or that morning, adding, “I’m hoping to tear into it tonight,” the complaint states.

Officers learned that a driving complaint had been called about 10 minutes before the crash regarding the Ram pickup driving northbound in the southbound lane.

Nechville was taken to a hospital, where he was evaluated for his injuries. A blood sample was taken; test results are pending.

In an interview with law enforcement, Nechville later admitted to drinking alcohol from midnight to 2:30 a.m. the night before at his house. “He stated he did not feel the effects of the alcohol but looking back on the situation he should not have drove,” the complaint reads.