WINONA, Minn. – A woman stopped by police for bad driving admitted right away that she had cocaine in a pocket. Sure enough, the officer discovered two bags — one with 0.01 gram, the other with 0.33 grams. Frances Elizabeth Young, 23, of Winona, was booked for possession of a controlled substance. This was about 12:15 a.m. at Third and Center streets downtown. But the officer had first made the stop not for drugs but because Young was in the Third Street bar district and driving like a drunk — over the fog line nearly hitting the sidewalk and a signal violation. She had an odor of alcoholic beverage, slurred speech, and bloodshot and watery eyes, the officer said. Then she failed several standardized field sobriety tests. A breathalyzer showed her blood-alcohol content at 0.15% — almost double the allowable proportion. So she also was booked for drunken driving.
