MINIESKA, Minn. — An ambulance crew suspecting an opioid overdose injected a Fillmore County man with the antidote Narcan at a remote farm house on County Road 31. The man, 40 miles from home, was taken to the Winona hospital. Deputies identified the man as James Allen Guenther, 42, of Peterson. A farmer on County Road 31, near Minnieska, had called 911 about a stranger who had walked up from a ravine and knocked at the farmer’s door and said his car had broken. This was about 7:25 p.m. Winona County deputies responded and found Guenther with bloodshot eyes and staggering and apparently under the influence of drugs or alcohol. An ambulance was summoned. After the Narcan dose, Guenther was taken 18 miles to the Winona hospital. Meanwhile, authorities sent a blood sample to a state lab for evaluation.
