WINONA, Minn. – After weeks of pleasantly mild August weather, expect a muggy scorcher. Temperatures were expected into the 90s on Monday. Cloud cover likely will keep the highs short of records but be like a tent trapping humidity underneath. The heat index could be in the upper 90s. Real meteorological excitement could come in the evening — and not for the better. A cold front was forecast to move in and collide with the day’s hot and wet air. This could lead to Level 2 and Level 3 severe weather, possibly with large hail, damaging winds, amd tornados.

RUSHFORD, Minn. – An Owatonna motorcyclist was injured when he lost control and ended up in a ditch on State Highway 43 outside of town. Anthony George Dudley, 60, was taken 24 miles to the Winona hospital with sustainable injuries. The accident was about 3:30 p.m. Pavement was dry. Dudley was on a 2023 Harley Davidson not wearing a helmet, police said.

WINONA, Minn. – Police arrived at an East Side house and found a man, stabbed and bloodied, being loaded into an ambulance. As police pieced together what happened, Mohammed Nasimul Haque, 53, the owner of the house, had been stabbed by a tenant after a confrontation over drugs. Haque had taken at least one stab wound to the left side of his chest. This was Saturday about 7:50 p.m. About 7-1/2 hours later, police arrested Mason Sean Maloney, 23, at a flop-house a couple blocks away. Maloney was booked for assault and also possession of controlled substances. In his room at Haque’s place, a police had found:

> 14 green pills, which tested as Clonazepham, a moderately addictive benzodiazepine tranquilizer.

>10 blue pills, which tested as methamphetamine, a highly addictive prescription drug with aphrodisiac and euphorant effects.

Witnesses at Haque’s house said Haque had confronted Maloney about selling drugs from the house. A scuffle ensued. The witness told officers they separated the men but not before Maloney grabbed “something sharp” and poked Haque twice. They quoted Maloney: “I stabbed you.” He was holding a four-inch pocketknife, they said. Although bleeding profusely, Haque went to a bedroom and came out with a loaded shotgun and aimed at Maloney but didn’t fire. Maloney left. He was arrested without resistance about 2:50 a.m. in the 400 block of Mankato.

ELBA, Minn. – Deputies patrolling likely out-of-the-way partying sites found early arrivals deep up Beaver Creek had already uncorked their beer. Three were cited for under-age consumption. All were 16-year-old boys, two of them from St. Charles and one from Elba. This was Saturday  about 9 p.m. About 30 other would-be partiers were turned away as they drove up the narrow, bumpy dirt road. These vehicles were from the Rochester area 42 miles away, deputies said. These everybody-invited pop-up parties have become a Saturday night ritual all around southeast Minnesota. All have the same pattern. They are organized surreptitiously online. The latest was up the dead-end Beaver Creek road off County Road 30 from Plainview — the same site as a huge gathering of an estimated 300 boozing young people, mostly under-age, on August 4. Since then, sheriff’s officers have set a system of online feelers for advance word on these BYOB beer busts. This time the early warning alert system didn’t work, said Jeff Mueller, deputy chief sheriff. Saturday night patrols, however, had been stepped up, and the deputies happened upon the new Beaver Creek party at an early hour. Two vehicles were told to leave. As others arrived, the drivers were told to back out and turn around and to get rid of their beer. Officers stayed on-site until 12:30 a.m., but new arrivals were few. Word evidently had spread through Snapchat and other social media that the gig was off and to stay away.

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WINONA, Minn. – An Eitzen man, Sandoval Salas-Tehuintle, 35, was stopped for erratic driving coming off the Interstate Bridge from Wisconsin and arrested as drunk at the wheel. Police said his blood-alcohol tested at 0.20% — 2-1/2 times what’s acceptable. His speech was slurred, his dexterity not right, and his eyes red and watery, officers said. Also, officers said, he was driving with a revoked license.

Salas-Tehuintle. Breath test showed 0.16% blood-alcohol.

STODDARD, Wis. – A head-on collision on State highway 35 injured a Minnesota woman. Alyson Marie Frey, 26, of LaCeescent, was taken 12 miles to a LaCrosse hospital and released. The colllsion was about 3 p.m. The wreckage blocked the Highway 35 thoroughfare along the Mississippi River for two hours. The other driver, Andre John Rasulius, 63, Holmen, was treated roadside for minor injuries. Vernon County deputies said that Andre crossed over into the opposite lane.

Quite the crumple. Injuries to both drivers non-life threatening in collision. Image: Vernon County sheriff

MAZEPPPA, Minn. – Two Lake Elmo motorcyclists, traveling together on separate bikes, collided northeast of Mazeppa on U.S. Highway 63, injuring one of them. Debra Kay Norring, 64, was taken 34 miles to a Rochester hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The other biker, Richard Kevin Norring, 68, was unhurt. The accident was near the intersection with Wabasha County Road 3. This was about 2:30 p.m. They were northbound toward Lake City. Neither was wearing headgear, police said.

WINONA, Minn. – A Winona man was charged with drunken boating after pulling up on a beach on Latsch Island in the wee hours. Carson James Dale Sanvik, 20, was tested for blood-alcohol, which officers said was double the threshold for impairment. Officers had been called to Latsch Island about suspicious activity. A boat had been beached and a man and woman had disappeared in the woods, the caller said. When police arrived, the two were sitting on the sand. As officers approached, they said, the man threw a bottle of beer into the river. He smelled of alcohol and admitted to drinking and driving the boat, officers said. His companion was not detained.

Sanvik. His eyes and speech bespoke impairment, police say. Also his breath.

WINONA, Minn. – A St. Louis Park driver, Roger Gerald Lambert, 64, was charged with drunken driving on Riverview Drive. The stop was about 1:30 a.m. on the heavily policed avenue along the fleeting harbor. Lamber also was driving without a valid driving license, police said.

ST. CHARLES, Minn. — A Rochester driver was charged with drunken driving on Oakview Drive on the West Side. Deputies said Michael Gabriel Siewert, 26, formerly of St. Charles, was stopped for speeding through the apartment neighborhood and then showed signs of impairment: Blood-shot watery eyes, mumbled speech and a decided balance problem. His blood-alcohol tested at 0.09% — roughly % 15% more than the threshold for impairment. The stop was about 12:20 a.m.

NODINE, Minn. – In a freakish accident on Interstate 90, the seat of an all-terrain vehicle on a trailer flew off and struck the windshield of a second vehicle. The second driver, Peace Munachimso Oguachuba, 23, of Fitchburg, Wisconsin, was injured and taken 17 miles to a LaCrosse hospital. Her injuries were described as sustainable. The accident was about 1:40 p.m. on the I-90 bridge over Dakota Valley Drive. Both vehicles were heading east toward LaCrosse. The driver towing the UTV behind a 2022 Ford F150 pickup, Daniel James Larson, 47, of Stewartville, was unhurt. Oguachuba was driving a 2021 Toyota Rav 4.

More mowing ahead. Early hay from this field above Whitewater State Park already are coiled in plastic for livestock feed over the winter. The second crop awaits wrapping. There’s time for at least one more harvest. Image: Steve Lunde