RIDGEWAY, Minn. – A Dakota man was arrested at rural house near Ridgeway after a call that he had attacked a woman inside and then was outside yelling and still threatening her. Concerned about the man’s mental stability, deputies summoned an ambulance to take him 14 miles to the Winona hospital for evaluation. He resisted being loaded into the ambulance and grabbed and twisted a thumb of one deputy. This was in the 30000 block of Shortcut Road. Deputies followed the ambulance to the hospital and left him there. Later the deputies were called back to the hospital for a new disturbance. After calming the man down, the deputies left again and began doing their paperwork on all that had happened. Pending charges against Christopher Randall Palmer, age 34: Domestic assault, threatening violence, attacking a police officer, and obstructing the legal process.
