WINONA, Minn. – A Winona County jail transport officer drove 170 miles to Maquoketo, Iowa, to pick up  a man jailed for terroristic threats to his ex-girlfriend in Lewiston. For the trip Steven Michael Conroy, 32, was cuffed for 3-1/2 hours  in the back of a transport vehicle. He was booked into the Winona jail at 5:10 p.m. Conroy had been arrested July 22 in LaMotte, Iowa, on a Winona warrant. Deputies inferred from messages to his ex-girlfriend that he was prepared to shoot it out with police, so Iowa authorities activated a SWAT team and surrounded his place. The arrest was without resistance, but Conroy then fought extradition back to Minnesota. He was in the Maquoketo jail while Minnesota and Iowa authorities worked through his legal resistance to bejg transferred to Minnesota.

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Conroy. Charge: Threats of violence without rgeard to risk.