LEWISTON, Minn. – A Minnesota City man apparently out of his mind on drugs was found walking down the middle of U.S. Highway 14 near the Arches entrance to Farmers Park. A state trooper, responding to a call about 9:10 a.m., stopped the man, who first refused to give his name, then, in cuffs after a sheriff’s deputy also had arrived, took off running. The trooper caught the man who by then as he was ingesting a plastic baggie believed to be holding fentynal. This is what happened next, according to the officers’ report: The trooper and deputy tried to pry the baggie out of the man’s mouth, then officers made an emergency call for an ambulance. The man was taken 18 miles to the Winona hospital, where his stomach was pumped. How many pills were ingested was impossible to determine because they were being chewed and gulped, and what was coughed up was dissolving in spit. The man was identified as William Busby Chapman Jr., 22. Deputies surmised that Chapman, on foot, had come from somewhere in the Arches, an enclave of a dozen houses. During the stop, after Chapman was cuffed, the trooper left the deputy and Chapman and turned to knock at a nearby house to ask if the man had come from there. Before the trooper got to the house, Chapman had bolted. The trooper ran back to assist the deputy. It was never determined where Chapman had been. The assumption was that had been drugging somewhere in the neighborhood.
Chapman. His Minnesota City address at the Hidden Valley trailer court