WINONA, Minn. – First there was the matter of speeding — 48 mph in a 30 zone. Then the cocaine, the marijuana, and the open bottle. And also, said police, Taquana Darshell Wilson, 39, of Winona, had bloodshot watery eyes. She slurred. She had a problem walking a straight line. It gets worse: She tried to outsmart the breathalyzer device for a blood-alcohol check, police said. She breathed in when she told to breathe out and, told again several times how to do it, breathed out so gently that a reliable reading was impossible. So even without a blood-alcohol reading, she went to jail. Among charges are those for baggies with clear 2.5 grams of a white substance in a backpack. Police said it tested positive for cocaine. In a purse was 1.3 grams of marijuana, police said. Then when the stop was pretty much over, Wilson picked u her jacket from the console in the car, and there, police said, was an open container with alcohol. Too, she told police, she had a couple drinks at a bar a couple hours earlier. This was at Gilmore Avenue and South Baker Street about 1:30 p.m.
Wilson. Booked for refusing a blood-alcohol test, obstructing police, committing domestic assault, possessing controlled substances, stealing a car, speeding, drunken-driving.