WINONA, Minn. – It seems everybody knows Michael Wade Zvirblis, but they don’t want him around even in crisis. He was turned away from the downtown warming center during the night — a cold winter night, by the way — because of earlier bad behavior. Taverns have him on their unwanted lists. Same reason.The detox people at the hospital won’t take him. Same reason. Police found him downtown on Third Street after midnight, throwing chunks of ice at store fronts and yelling and screaming at who knows who but not causing damage. There was no crime worth arresting him. And officers, who have come to know Zvirblis well, let it go. Soon thereafter, however, he had broken a beer bottle and was smashing a storefront window. This was criminal. It was a $400 double-pane thermal-insulated window. Zvirblis, 55, was arrested, booked at the jail for damaging property, and locked in a warm cell.
Zvirblis. Apparently desperate to get inside from the cold sonewhere, anywhere, he smashes window. Arrest follows and a warm jail cell.