WINONA, Minn. — A Winona woman, Tiffany Lee Mitchell, 42, was booked for assault, robbery and burglary after an incident at a house in the 950 block of West Third Street. The woman living in the house told police that Mitchell entered the unannounced and attacked her, spat on her, took her phone, and left. The victim showed police scratches on her face and chest. The victim’s husband witnessed what happened, police said. Officers found Mitchell across town  in the 250 block of Chatfield Street and made the arrest. Mitchell denied the attack, police said.

Mitchell. Apparently angry about something. Police unsure what.

WINONA, Minn. – Responding to a call from Fleet Farm about a theft in progress, police stopped Dakota Lee Jonsgaard in the shopping aisles. Store detectives said their surveillance video showed Jonsgaard packing ammunition and a gun-enthusiast magazine into his clothing. Sure enough, police said, the ammo and magazine were on his person. More serious for Jonsgaard than a charge of attempting to steal $64 in mechanize, police soon realized that he was a felon who was barred from possessing firearms — and also ammo.

Jonsgaard. Age 20. Of Winona. Back to the judge about ammo.

WINONA, Minn. – A Winona man was booked for receiving stolen property after police stumbled across him unloading a heavy-duty Army Corps power generator from his truck. Police said that Jorden Matthew Gardner, 26, explained that he had received the generator from his from his brother. The machine, a wheeled device that would need two people to lift,  had been reported missing in August from an Army Corps dredging site near Dick’s Marina on Latsch Island. The arrest vas about 4:15 p.m. in the 1050 block of East Fifth Street.

Gardner. Stolen generator missing 2-1/2 months

MANKATO, Minn. – The judge in the murder trial of Winonan Adam Favel hopes to seat a 12th and final juror on Monday. Judge Nany Buytendorp had expected to finish jury selection last week, but interviewing jurors took longer than scheduled. Mostly this was due to extensive probing by Fravel’s attorney for biases flowing from knowledge about the case or from attitudes and personal experiences. Judicial rules allow the defense to remove 15 jurors from the pool. Last week Fravel’s defense used 10 of these strikes. Prosecutors are allowed five strikes and exercised two. The selection process doesn’t end with 12 jurors. There will remain five alternate jurors to be selected. The alternates n will sit in on the trial as backups for anyone on the 12-persoon jury who needs to quit for illness or other reason

Earlier: Fravel jury nearing the full panel status

Trial site. The Favel trial is at the sprawling Blue Earth County Justice Center that opened in 2009 on the city’s outskirts. Courtrooms are on the second floor. Fravel is held on-site at the county jail, which has 116 cells in six housing units. During the day during courtroom recesses Fravel is in a holding cell connected by a secure elevator to the courtroom. For courtroom appearances last week to witness jury selection, Fravel was in a coat and tie that appeared fresh every day.

Volleyball (girls): Wisconsin Dells Chiefs 2, Winona Cotter Ramblers 0

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WINONA, Minn. – A Rochester driver, Miguel Angel Benjamin, 25, was charged with drunken driving after a police stop off Riverview Drive at Second Street near downtown. The stop was about 8:55 p.m.

WEST ALBANY, Minn. – An Albert Lea motorcyclist suffered life-threatening injuries when his Harley Davidson left the highway and crashed. Kenn Alan Registe, 70, was taken 37 miles to a Rochester hospital in touch-and-go condition, said a Wabasha County deputy. Registe was not wearing a helmet, the deputy said. The accident was about 4:50 p.m. at Highway 60 and County Road 4. This roughly is midway between Wabasha and Mazeppa. Registe was westbound toward Mazeppa.

LAKE CITY, Minn. – A two-vehicle collision injured tqo passengers, both from Zumbrota, in one of the cars. Robert Richard Tri, 75, and Peggy Lee Tri, 72, were taken to the nearby Lake City hospital with sustainable injuries. They were in a 2017 Toyota Rav 4 driven by Kati Ann Tri, 44, of Pine Island, who was unhurt. The accident was about 1:30 p.m. at U.S. Highway 61 at Borners Court just south of Lake City. No one in the other car, a 2018 Cadillac Escalade, was hurt: Ross Lyle Mattke, 73, of Lake City, the driver, and Margaret Lynn Mattke, 69, also of Lake City. Police said both vehicles were heading south out of Lake City toward Wabasha.

SLEEPY EYE, Minn. – In a break from campaigning, vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, who also is Minnesota’s governor, took in a high school football game in Mankato, where he once taught and coached, and the next morning went pheasant hunting 45 miles away near Sleepy Eye. His Mankato West team won 28-7. The next day Walz got off one shot with his Beretta shotgun but missed. It was his annual outing for Minnesota’s first day of the pheasant season – an annual ritual for Walz. With him, besides a watchful Secret Service detail, were Sarah Strommen, state Natural Resources director; Marilyn Vetter, national executive director of Pheasants Forever; Scott Rall, Nobles County Pheasants Forever chapter president; and landowner Matt Kucharski.

Earlier: Walz schedules Eau Claire campaign stop

Snacking on the hunt. With a snack of venison and sharing tales from a morning with buddies and his labrador tramping through tall grass for pheasant.

No spilt milk. Better yet, at least for gulls, was spilled grain at the Winona fleeting harbor. Image: Steve Lunde

MINNESOTA CITY, Minn. — A deputy found a car inoperable and backed into a ditch and stuck in Minnesota City. The car was registered to a Hidden Valley address, where the deputy knocked.  Ryan David Vangs, 49, of Minneapolis, came out. Asked about the car, the deputy said, Vangs became uncooperative, turned around, and walked back inside. He was intoxicated, the deputy said. Vangs was charged with obstructing justice. The deputy said he was confident that Vangs somehow had backed the vehicle off the road, run the car battery down, and hitched a ride to Hidden Valley. A witness had video showing a man whose clothes matched Vangs’ when found at the Hidden Valley address. This was about 8 p.m.

WINONA, Minn. – A Winona driver was arrested on a tentative charge of driving while intoxicated and also refusing to allow police to test his breath for blood-alcohol content. Danny Daniel Perez Perez, 38, was stopped at Wabasha and St. Charles streets for crossing the centerline and having a suspendedoobject from his rearview mirror. According to the arresting officer, Perez Perez had an odor of alcohol and also bloodshot and  watery eyes. Then, said the officer, he failed field sobriety tests. Blood was later drawn under protest for the state crime lab to test for drunkenness.

WINONA, Minn. – Although he wasn’t physically in the driver’s seat, a Winona man was charged with criminal vehicular operation of a vehicle in a three-car collision near the Third Street bar district. This was about 2:20 a.m. As police pieced together what happened, Carson James Dale Sanvik, 20, was in the front passenger seat and drunk and fired up. To settle an argument, he reached over and grabbed the steering wheel, in effect commandeering control. The vehicle scraped two parked cars, both unoccupied. This was at Fourth and Main streets. Nobody was injured, including three or four people in the car with Sanvik. Damage to the vehicles was severe. Sanvik was booked for criminal vehicular operation. He was booked also for driving while intoxicated. Police described Sanvik with bloodshot and watery eyes, slurred speech, and an unmistakable alcohol odor. A formal charge of drunken driving was delayed pending the results of a blood test from the state crime bureau.

Sandik. Anger got best of him, leading, police said, to sideswiping other cars.

LEWISTON, Minn.  – A man watching television heard glass breaking and looked into his bedroom and found that somebody had thrown a brick through the window. This was about 1:25 a.m. on Elm Street near the elementary school. The man told deputies he had idea who did it or why. His house been egged a few days earlier, the man said.

SPARTA, Wis. — Two people asleep in a trailer house suffered burns and cuts when fire destroyed their trailer and another next door and damaged a third. Neighbors pulled the couple out through a bedroom window. They were treated at the Sparta hospital for the injuries, which were believed to be sustainable. The three displaced families moved in temporarily with relatives. A donation center was established for clothing and essentials. Nothing was salvaged from the fire. The fire at the Sparta Mobil Home Park at 100 Avon Road.

Tightly packed trailer houses. On the South Side of Sparta off Highway 27. Image: Sparta Fire Department

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