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For Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008
Winona
Saturday
2:39 a.m. — An officer saw Nathan Michael Ahlers, 21, of Winona lighting off fireworks in the middle of the street near Broadway and Center streets. Ahlers ran away as the officer approached, but the officer later found Ahlers sitting behind the wheel of a parked car on Fifth Street near Midtown Foods. He appeared intoxicated and was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving for being in physical control of the vehicle while intoxicated. A breath test at the jail found his blood-alcohol concentration to be 0.13 percent.
8:30 a.m. — A woman brought her son to the Law Enforcement Center about three hours after he came home stumbling and apparently drunk and belligerent. The 16-year-old boy submitted to a portable breath test that found his blood-alcohol concentration to be 0.18 percent, and he was cited for underage drinking.
12:35 p.m. — Two Winona boys were cited for theft by shoplifting from Shopko at 405 Cottonwood Drive. A 12-year-old boy was caught stealing a Lego Mars Mission kit and Yu-gi-oh! cards worth $19.97. A 10-year-old boy with him was caught stealing Pokemon cards worth $11.99.
Sunday
4:40 p.m. — Two Winona women were caught stealing two sterling silver rings worth a total of $26.98 from ShopKo. Crystal Jean Hicks, 21, placed the rings in a diaper bag being carried by Nicole Ellen White, 26. They were stopped by store security as they left the store and were both cited for theft by shoplifting.
Winona CountyFriday
7:13 p.m. — A motorist reported a 12- to 13-year-old boy in an orange shirt and white hat on a bicycle threw a rock off the County Road 11 overpass above Interstate 90 in Ridgeway, Minn., striking and smashing the vehicle’s windshield. Police searched the area but could not locate the teen.
Saturday
2:02 a.m. — A deputy stopped a vehicle traveling on closed County Road 120 near The Arches between Lewiston and Stockton. The driver, Justin Daniel Loehr, 26, of Winona, appeared intoxicated and was arrested. He was cited for misdemeanor drunken driving with a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.08 percent.
7:30 p.m. — Deputies responded to a motorcycle accident in which the driver drove through the T-intersection of County Roads 20 and 25 north of Lewiston and ended up in the ditch. Jeffrey David Schmidt, 39, of Rochester was unconscious at the time of the crash and was taken to the hospital for treatment of minor injuries. Schmidt also appeared intoxicated but refused chemical testing. He was charged Monday with misdemeanor drunken driving and gross misdemeanor test refusal. The sheriff’s department is investigating reports of a second motorcycle crashing at the intersection with Schmidt.
Sunday
4:24 p.m. — A motorcyclist heading north on County Road 33 just inside the city limits of Utica, Minn., said he swerved to miss a deer and skidded into the ditch. Ricky Andrew Ingalls, 48, of Adams, Minn., was airlifted to St. Marys Hospital in Rochester, Minn., for injuries sustained in the crash.
Monday
1:33 a.m. — Deputies responded to a 911 hang-up at a residence on Winona Road in Minnesota City. Upon arrival, a man reported his girlfriend hit him in the chest, and when he called 911, she hung up the phone. The woman had since left the
residence, but police found a small bag of marijuana in her vehicle she left parked there. Officers eventually arrested Kyla Marie Powell, 40, of Goodview on suspicion of domestic assault, interfering with a 911 call and possession of a small amount of marijuana.
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