WINONA, Minn. – A Winona man arrested as a drunk driver at 12:14 a.m. was then arrested again, 1-1/2 hours later at 1:57 a.m., for the same offense. This time the cops locked him up. Jesse James Robertson, 36, was arrested first at Broadway and Kansas on the East Side. He had crossed the centerline and was weaving, police said. At the jailhouse his blood tested as at 0.15% alcohol — almost double what’s allowed. Per usual protocol, police issued a citation and released Robertson to a responsible adult to escort home to sober up. But this time the other adult driver took Robertson back to his car, which was parked and locked where the first arrest occurred, and left him. Robertson then was stopped 10 block away at Broadway and Huff streets, again because he was weaving and crossing the centerline. By the time he was at the jailhouse again, he had sobered up a bit. His blood-alcohol level had dropped to 0.13% — still too high. He was shown to a cell.
Robertson. Drunk-driving charge escalated.