Lewiston-Altura High School. On County Road 25 on the Lewiston East End. Enrollment: 360 students in Grades 9 to 12. Spring classes ended May 22.
Lone vandal seen smashing sunray collectors
LEWISTON, Minn. — A vandal smashed solar panels at the Lewiston High School with the damage estimated initially at $100,000. The attack was at twilight, about 6:40 p.m. A witness called the police dispatcher in Winona and was able describe an automobile before it drove off. Sheriff’s deputies found a vehicle matching the description a quarter mile away in a Dollar General parking lot. Deputies said the driver, Brenden Robert Myers, age 21, of Lewiston, admitted to the vandalism. There was an odor of marijuana, deputies said: Also field sobriety tests suggested impairment. Myers was jailed on a tentative charge of driving while impaired and damage to property. A final DWI charge hinge on pending results from a blood sample drawn at the county jail in Winona. Not immediately clear was how the damage to the solar panels was accomplished. Deputies said an electrical cord of some sort apparently was involved.
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