WINONA, Minn. – A Winona man accused of shoplifting new boots at the Fleet Farm mega-store resisted arrest and had to be cuffed forcibly, police said. Store detectives had called police after videotaping Tyler Lee Jonsgaard, 24, pulling new boots from a box, trying them on, putting his old boots in the box, and walking off. Police said Jonsgaard first cooperated with them. He had been through this before. In October he had been ticketed for shop-lifting bullets at Fleet Farm and banned from coming back. Police said Jonsgaard apparently assumed he would get off easy like the last time but turned belligerent when told he would be arrested as a repeat offender. He resisted and bad-mouthed the officers. The officers managed, however, to cuff him and take him to jail.
Jonsgaard. Arrested wearing new $87 boots. Charges: Shoplifting, trespassing, resisting arrest.