STOCKTON, Minn. – After a snow plow driver spotted a car in the ditch on Stockton Hill, a deputy found a man still at the wheel and apparently drunk. He wasn’t injured. Zachary Sheridan Ccummings, 29, of Winona, told the deputy that he had pulled over at Bow Hunter Road to check for text messages and that the car slipped on the wet, slippery slope. The deputy said the man showed signs of impairment: Droopy eyelids, bloodshot and watery eyes, slurred speech. His blood-alcohol level tested at 0.14% and 0.15% in separate checks. Impairment begins at.08% by law. This was about 1:45 a.m. Cummings said he downed a “couple beers” an hour earlier in Winona.
