TROY, Minn. – A Steele County man, 80 miles from home, Kyle Steven Eckhoff, 48, of Ellendale, was arrested for drugs while parked at a remote cell tower in extreme southwest Winona County. A deputy found Eckhoff’s vehicle after a caller reported a black SUV suspiciously at the driveway into the tower in the 31000 block of Ma Dailey Road. The deputy said Eckhoff was jittery and sweating profusely and making no sense. “Why sweating?” “I’m always nervous around law enforcement.” The deputy said he asked several times for permission to search the vehicle but couldn’t get a straight answer. The deputy said Eckhoff kept repeating: “I have nothing to hide.” “Is that a yes?” “I have nothing to hide.” When a second deputy arrived, Eckhoff relented. In frisking the vehicle, rhe deputies found an improvised water bong, a marijuana pipe, and a pipe commonly used for meth. Asked then whether he was high on meth, Eckhoff said no. Asked again, the deputies said, he explained he had experienced car problems and pulled over at the tower and smoked some meth. The deputies found a plastic baggy in Eckhoff’s shoes. That, said the first deputy, probably explained why Eckhoff had been wiggling around somewhat frantically in the vehicle’s cab and bobbing up and down – concealing the meth — when the deputy drove up. Originally Eckhoff had explained he was tidying up cookie crumbs in the passenger seat. The meth totaled 1.5 grams, the deputies said. Eckhoff was hauled 30 miles to the Winona County jail and booked four hours later.