WINONA, Minn. — A Dakota man spent the weekend in jail, again in a charge of habitual huffing of exhilarants from condensed air in dust-off products. The latest huffing arrest for Keith Schroeder, 31, was Thursday at the Menards super-hardware store on the Far East End. Despite a no-trespass order, Schroeder walked into Menards, apparently took dust-off cans from a shelf, and went to a restroom for secluded huffing. Store detectives called police, who found Schroeder in a stall with seven aerosol cans, five already empty. He was booked for trespassing and habitual substance abuse. He had been arrested on the same charges the night before at Target. The incidents had the same modus operandi, although at Target, he admitted, he huffed too long and found himself locked inside the restroom when the store closed at 10 p.m. Undeterred at being stranded alone on the store, he left the restroom, fumbled around the store in the dark. found the aisle with dust-off products, grabbed a few more cans, and returned to the restroom. Motion detectors sensed all thus and sent off an alarm. When Schroeder eventually exited the store, a burglar alarm sounded. Police were waiting. The Menards arrest the next day capped a series of huffing incidents over a soan of three days, although not all appear in court documents against Schroeder. He does, however, have six earlier huffing convictions. All were at big-box stores that sell dust-off products and have public restrooms with stalls with doors that latch.
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