DRESBACH, Minn. — Deputies spotted a stolen boat on a Mississippi island across from Blue Heron Lane and arrested a Winona man. Charged with theft was Nathan Eric Valentis Walker, age 42. This was about 5:30 a.m. The boat, a 14-foot aluminum craft, was towed back to its dock at the Blue Heron address, its motor intact. Because Walker had a cut on his head, deputies took him 22 miles to the Winona hospital. An hour later Winona city police stopped Walker crossing Mankato Avenue near the hospital in an emergency room gown and barefoot. Back in custody Walker was taken to jail. Deputies were unsure how Walker’s head had been cut. They had been in the Blue Heron area to investigate a report from a Canadian Pacific crew that a man had jumped off a freight car on their moving train. Deputies were unsure whether the train case and the boat were related.
Walker. Suspect in a boat theft made it across the Mississippi only to an island.