WINONA, Minn. – A Winona man was charged with bolting old and invalid plates on a used car he bought a couple weeks earlier. Police said that Bryer Gerald Gebhardt, 29, admitted he wanted to avoid paying the state fee to register his ownership. The stop occurred, police said, because Gebhardt had failed to yield to a pedestrian. This was about1 0 p.m. at Fifth and Hamilton streets. The officer discovered right away that the plates had expired in July and no longer matched any vehicle in state records. Besides the charge of avoiding the state registration fee, Gebhardt as cited for driving without a license and without insurance.
