WINONA, Minn. – Police booked a man for breaking into a Far West End house and walking off with a bottle of wine. The arrest came roughly two hours after police had been called for a man asleep on the railroad mainline behind houses on Marian Street. The man was gone, but officers found him nearby at his residence. While officers tried to coax him out, the man threw an object through a window, smashing the glass. About that moment the officers were called to an unrelated emergency elsewhere. In a judgment call the officers left. After all, there had been no crime, at least nothing major. Then about 11:55 p.m. the owners of a nearby home, also on Marian Street, called that they had seen a remote feed from a surveillance camera inside their house. There was an intruder inside. Police responded and found Percy Scott Topness, 41. This was the same guy who had been on the railroad tracks earlier. He was so drunk, police said, that they got him to the hospital. While being evaluated, they said, Topness headbutted one officer in the forehead. The officer, although in pain with swelling, arrested Topness. Once he was medically, he was hauled to jail. The booking was a 2:15 a.m.
Topness. Charged with trespass, assault on an officer.