Booking mugs. First at Winona in June albeit briefly. Now in Rochester jail 7-1/2 months.
Murder defendant remains in other county’s jail
WINONA, Minn. – The people who run the Winona County jail are in no rush to bring their most high-profile prisoner, murder defendant Adam Favel, back from Rochester where he has been held 7-1/2 months. It’s a security issue. Fravel’s attorney, Zach Bauer, says Fravel is so reviled in Winona that it would be impossible to find an impartial local jury. A question that cannot be avoided: How safe would Favel be in the local jail population? So although Fravel has been on the Winona jail roster since his arrest June for the murder of his girlfriend Maddi Kingsbury, he has hardly ever been there since he being booked. Because the Winona jail was condemned at the time, Favel was sent as a matter of routine at to the Olmsted County Adult Detention Center 40 miles away in Rochester. But now that the new $28 million Winona jail is operational, all other farmed-out inmates have been returned. Fravel, however, still sits in Rochester. For court appearances in Winona, deputies transport him back and forth in the locked and caged rear of a squad car. Then at the Winona police garage he’s escorted underground in cuffs through a tunnel to the Courthouse. Asked Friday at the daily news briefing when Favel is scheduled to be returned, Deputy Sheriff Jeff Mueller deferred.
Earlier: Fravel attorney: Murder trial must be moved