WINONA, Minn. – A St. Charles man driving a car with super-tinted windows was stopped for speeding, 37 mph in a 30 zone, but it was the tint that caught the officer’s eyes. He couldn’t see inside. The officer’s standard-issue tint meter measured 26%. Nothing less than 50% is allowed under Minnesota law. But there was more. The officer said that Derrick William Micha B Erickson, 25, had eyes that were bloodshot and watery – and he smelled drunk. Too, he admitted to two beers before driving. Although Erickson agreed to a breath test, he then subterfuged the test by starting and stopping breathing when told to keep exhaling, the officer said. Also Erickson wouldn’t breathe into the device. He was taken to jail. This was about 1:55 a.m. at Broadway and McBride Street on the West Side.
