WINONA, Minn. – The open bottle of Sminoff on the floor of his car wasn’t the problem for Cody Joseph Koscianski, 19, of Winona, when police stopped him about 1:45 a.m. Under a white cloth in the back seat was a fully loaded Taurus 9mm handgun, police said. In the glove box was a loaded magazine. Worse, Koscianski didn’t have a gun permit. He said he didn’t know where the gun came from – wasn’t his. Nor, said a passenger, was gun his. About the Smirnoff, Koscianski failed sobriety tests on the spot, like walking a straight line. His blood-alcohol measured 0.14% — almost double what’s allowed. The stop occurred after an officer reported Koscianski’s car weaving over the center line, overcorrecting, and almost hitting a parked car. This was at Third and Huff streets.
Koscianski. Uncapped vodka in car, also a handgun.