WINONA, Minn. – When a police officer approached a Winona man wanted on an arrest warrant, the guy looked the officer in the eye from the front lawn, turned around and scurried inside the house. Police protocol would have permitted the officer to pursue the man, even booting down the door, but the officer chose instead to mail a citation to Troy Adair Spann, 57, for feeing an officer. It was a judgment call and a smart one, said Deputy Police Chief Jay Rasmussen: “We’ll pick him up another day.” The incident was in the 700 block of East Fifth Street about11:20 a.m. The arrest warrant was for failure to appear in court on a drug charge.
