HOMER, Minn. — Although the driver refused to take a blood-alcohol test, he was charged with drunken-driving anyway. Kenneth Maurice Lofton, 52, of Winona, had been stopped for speeding about 2:26 a.m. on U.S. 61 near the Watkins Road trail up the bluffs. The arrest was based on his alcohol body odor, bloodshot and watery eyes, impaired speech, and an inability to walk a straight line. He was driven to jail.
Lofton. Charges include refusing a breath test in the field and then also a test at the station house.