WINONA, Minn. – Police tased a Winona man three times after he resisted arrest in a traffic stop. Jonathan Patrick Catlin, 22, gave up after the third stun. “OK, OK. OK,” officers reported he shouted finally. They cuffed him. The incident was about 1:30 a.m. near Broadway and Laird on the East Side. Officers said that Catlin, who had three women in his car, one only 17, had been weaving across Broadway’s four lanes. He got out of the car as requested but gave a false name, officers said. His blood-shot watery eyes suggested he had been drinking, then he failed field sobriety tests, that included walking a straight line. When told he was under arrest, officers said, Catlin tensed and refused to put his hands behind his back, then trashed and flailed in resistance. The women in the car, meanwhile, were yelling at the officers and compounding the commotion, the officers said. Catlin’s resistance continued even after two low-intensity stun-gun shots were fired into him. On the third stun, he gave up. At the jailhouse, his blood-alcohol level showed impairment at 0.09%. The 17-year-old in the car was cited for under-age consumption and turned over to her parents. The other two women were not charged.
Catlin. Booked for drunken driving, obstructing police, and an outstanding felony warrant.