WINONA, Minn. – A woman whose car rolled onto its roof in a ditch on County Road 17 up Pleasant Valley was booked for driving drunk and also for having a loaded pistol in the glove compartment. Arrested was Erica Renee Kish, 29, of Winona. Her blood alcohol tested as 0.22% — almost triple the legal definition of impairment. She suffered minor injuries in the rollover but was cleared by an ambulance crew to be taken to jail. When deputies arrived at the scene, a male acquaintance had just showed up after Kish called him for help. The acquaintance, Andrew Donald Heintz, 30, had arrived driving his own car by the time police arrived. He too appeared drunk and was also arrested. Meanwhile, police discovered a loaded handgun uncased in Kish’s glove compartment – even though she didn’t have a permit to carry a weapon. At the jailhouse Heintz tested for 0.14% blood-alcohol. Both had failed balance and other field sobriety tests at the scene.
Kish. What was handgun doing in her car? No permit to carry.