WINONA, Minn. – Sheriff Ron Ganrude has assigned extra patrols this weekend, including volunteers, to watch for the kind of unusually heavy traffic that typically precedes pop-up teen-age beer busts in remote rural areas. The parties arranged online. were epidemic last summer with drunken fights, injuries and accidents. This year there has been only one event. It was two weekends ago. The event fizzled because deputies in squad cars roamed roads for several miles around the suspected site and enforced traffic laws to the letter. This was near little-populated and densely wooded Beaver junction six miles north of Elba. In short, flashing lights dampened party enthusiasm as deputies were stopping cars, ticketing already-imbibing passengers in the cars, and advising drivers on directions home. Drivers from several counties, many of them lost on dark and unmarked backroads, turned around.
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