WINONA, Minn. – Police found a car with heavy front-end damage and went looking for the driver at nearby addresses. At Knollwood Drive off Od Homer Road, they found Betsy Jean Comero, 45, who was visiting a friend. Comero said she had hit a deer. Police were dubious. The damage didn’t fit an impact with a deer but instead looked like an encounter with a bridge abutment. Also, police said, Comero seemed drunk. She smelled of alcohol, her speech was slurred, her eyes were bloodshot and watery, and she had poor balance. She refused sobriety tests. This was about 11:15 p.m. Comero was booked on suspicion of drunken driving and for declining chemical testing on her sobriety.
Comero. Has a rural Winna address.