WINONA, Minn. – Police surprised a Winona man when they rang his doorbell to tell him that his car had been stolen. The man looked out at his driveway. Sure enough, the car was gone. The officers explained that a 16-year-old Vermont youth was in custody in LaCrosse after police there stopped him for speeding and erratic driving. The youth wouldn’t explain how or where he got the car, but LaCrosse police traced the registration to a Winona address. That was how Winona police ended up on the porch of the Winona man whose vehicle, surprise, had been stolen. Winona police ironically had been alerted earlier by numerous callers about a wild driver around town, but he wasn’t to be found. Apparently he already was en route to LaCrosse 30 miles away. Police in LaCrosse said the youth was a long ways from home 1,200 miles away in St. Albans, Vermont. The car, by the way, had been impounded by LaCrosse police and veen towed into storage. The question for the Winona car owner: How to get his car back
