WINONA, Minn. – Police found a bunch of prescription tranquilizers and painkillers in a parked car whose driver was slumped asleep over the steering wheel. The car’s engine was running, police said. Daniel Lee Burt-Vasquez, 22, of Winona, was arrested. This was about 6:50 p.m. at Second and Wilson streets on the Near West Side. Officers awakened Burt-Vasquez by knocking his car window. He fumbled and moved a foil wrapper out of his lap, they said. He admitted taking two Xanax pills, they said. In field sobriety tests, he was unsteady and his speech slurred. He was arrested. In the foil wrapper, officers reported 46 prescription pills. These were 24 Oxycodone painkiller doses, 21 Xanax doses, and one Alprazolam brand painkiller dose.
Burt-Vasquez. Preliminary charges: Illegal drug possession, drunk driving.