WINONA, Minn. – Police caught up with a Winona man who had been reported for erratic behavior in a Kwik Trip shop – and then, when stopped, acted even more erratically. Brett Alan Williams, age 32, obsessed about playing in the dirt and kept complaining about being overheated, police said. Overheated? This was 2 a.m. The temperature was 33. And he was wearing shorts and only a light jacket. A check of his blood-alcohol level showed zero. A drug evaluation expert was called in and concluded there were symptoms of serious impairment. Informed he was under arrest, the man ran, police said. An officer tackled him after a few steps. At jail, officers said, he refused to provide blood and urine samples for drug testing. He was charged with:
> Driving impaired.
> Being under the influence of a controlled substance.
> Obstructing an officer.
> Refusing a test for drugs.
The original complaint was from the all-night Kwik Trip at Mankato Avenue and Broadway. A clerk called police about a customer who had trouble navigating the aisles and was muttering incoherently to himself, and then drove off. Police spotted the vehicle on Center Street between Broadway and Wabasha streets and saw the driver steaking away on foot. When they caught him, they said he yelled and screamed and laughed inexplicably and kept making remarks about playing in the dirt.
Williams. The county’s certified drug valuation expert was summed to arrest scene.