WINONA, Minn. – Police arrested Winona man who invited officers into his apartment to show them his meth. Indeed, a baking tin on the stove tested positive for meth residue. The officers arrested Varajalon Natajvi Koisef Hodges. 38. This was about 3:20 a.m. in the 100 block of West Wabasha Street. The police call was weird from the start. Officers said that Hodges had called to complain that an upstairs neighbor was spying on him, taking video through his kitchen window, and threatening to return to shoot him. Hodges said he was afraid to stay in his apartment the rest of the night, officers said. The officers climbed the stairs to confront the neighbor. The neighbor was dumfounded. He said he had never met Hodges. Furthermore, he said he didn’t even own a gun. The officers went back to Hodges and explained they found no evidence of any criminal activity. Hodges persisted he was afraid to stay in his apartment. As the officers were leaving, Hodges insisted they come back in to see his meth. They did. Hodges spent the rest of the night in the safety of a jail cell, booked for drug possession. The next chapter of this saga will be how Hodges explains all this to the judge.
Hodges. However bizarre the pre-dawn events, police said Hodges showed no symptoms of impairment.