WINONA, Minn. – Called to a domestic disturbance, police found Anthony Whiteside Jr., 35, outside yelling and plainly agitated. It turned out that there had been a horrific battle in the kitchen. Police finally subdued and arrested Whiteside but not without major resistance – and then they learned what had been going on. From the officers’ reconstructed account of what happened before they arrived: An angry Whiteside had pinned the woman of the house against a refrigerator and balled his fists as if to strike her. The woman’s 16-year-old son intervened to pull Whiteside off. Both fell to the floor. Whiteside hit his head on a table. Although bleeding, he threw the teenager to the floor multiple times and punched him in the face with closed fists. The family dog plunged protectively into the melee, biting Whiteside and drawing more blood.

Whiteside. Charges: Domestic assault, assaulting police, obstructing the legal process, disorderly conduct, violating a no-contact court order.

Struggle beyond the kitchen

According to the police report: When they arrived, Whiteside was uncooperative. He wouldn’t give his name or explain what had happened. He went after the officers. He threw his body around as tyey tried restrain him. At one point Whiteside stopped actively resisting, going limp and pinning his dead body weight on the officers. Eventually the officers got Whiteside to the squad car. He kicked his feet into the grill and, although restrained, tried climbing up the hood with his feet. Officers grabbed his feet, but he wrapped his legs around the officers kicking. Finally the officers dragged him  inside the car. Next an ambulance crew deemed Whiteside’s injuries superficial — yes, the dog bite too. He went to jail. The incident had begun with a 911 call at 4:28 p.m. Whiteside was booked at the jail at 5:38. There were five counts, four stemming from the incident, one for  violating  a court order not go near the woman who was attacked in her kitchen. The incident itself was in the 250 block of Franklin Street.

MANKATO, Minn. —Three adults were arrested  for supplying fentanyl-tainted pain-killers to juvenile who went into overdose. The juveniles, all teens, survived although one of them remained hospitalized. Arrested on search warrants about 5 p.m. as they were leaving a house they were known to occupy were:

Agents of the Minnesota River Valley Drug Task Force said they seized 377 M30 oxycodone pills, plus cocaine, crack cocaine, marijuana and two firearms, in Isiakpere and Holloway’s possession. The symptoms of the three juveniles were consistent with exposure to M30 pills, which often are laced with fentanyl for extra kick. The fentanyl additive is incredibly potent and unpredictable. Only two milligrams of fentanyl , the size of a few grains of salt,can be fatal. The fentanyl  is fused into  the counterfeit pain-killer oxycodone in unregulated underworld drug mills.

Earlier: Fentanyl suspected in Mankato teen overdoses

Charges

Agents recommended these charges.

> Second-degree-controlled substance sales.

> Third-degree-controlled substance possession.

> Being a felon in possession of a firearm.

> Being an ineligible person in possession of a firearm.

> Causing great bodily harm by distributing drugs.

Some charges may be aggravated considering the age of the victims and the fact that a firearm was involved or least present, according to sources knowledgeable of drug law.

Oxycodone M30. Authentic or fentayol-laced counterfeits? Impossible to know by eyeballing

WINONA, Minn. – Police arrived at a house on Glen Echo Road to find a woman  terrorized by  25-year-old house guest smashing television sets and computers with a baseball bat. When the man was coaxed outside by police, they said he turned the metal baseball bat on them. They tasered him. Finally cuffed, Mitchell Lee Schroeder, 25, was taken to the hospital to check for injuries from the melee, then to jail. A mental health issue was suspected. These are details from the police account: They had been called about 1:45 p.m. to a domestic disturbance in the Sugar Loaf neighborhood. Through the back screen door, they saw Schroeder wielding the baseball bat and smashing things. Asked to come out, he did. In the backyard, officers asked him to drop the bat. He refused and charged. One officer drew his stun gun and tasered Schroeder. Grabbing for the baseball bat, the officer dropped his taser gun. Both Schroeder and the officer fell to the ground. A second officer cuffed Schroeder. Any injuries? Schroeder had a bruise from hitting his head on crushed gravel in the backyard. The officer who also went down had a lump on a hand.

Schroeder. Baddaged at hospital for head bruise. Charges: Assault with dangerous weapon, assaulting an officer of the law.

WINONA, Minn. – Cops are quick to spot expired tags on car license plates. For them it’s reflexive. But in a traffic stop at Fifth and Hamilton streets, it was more than a motorist having forgotten to buy new tags but outright fraud. Chad Steven Walsky, 46, of Winona, had an old tag on the front bumper but a new 2023 tag on the rear. The new tag had been peeled off another family member’s car. He had swapped them. which deputies said Walsky admitted. The stop was about 11:45 p.m. The charge was a misdemeanor. Too: Walsky didn’t have insurance on the car, another misdemeanor.

LACROSSE, Wis. –A Winona man was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a teen-age girl in June. Zachary D. Beyerstedt, 33, was charged also with exposing exposing his pudenda to a child. The girl told police that Beyerstedt pressured her into intimacy, touched her inappropriately, and dropped his pants in the presence of the child. There apparently was more than one encounter. Unknown to Beyerstedt, the girl recorded one of them, police said. Beyerstedt has been released on $10,000 bail. The charges carry as many as 43-1/2 years in prison.

Beyerstedt. Woman says she first violated while asleep in a chair.

RUSHFORD, Minn. – High demand is straining the regional power grid, prompting MIEnergy and other co-ops to urge subscribers to reduce usage. The peak energy alert kicked in at 7 a.m. People with dual-fuel devices will be affected roughly 7 to 11 a.m. Issuing the alert besides MIEnergy:

> Freeborn-Mower Electric, of Albert Lea.

> People’s Energy, of Oronoco.

> Heartland Power, of St. Ansgar.

Tips to cut back: Blizzard puts power grid in stress

WINONA, Minn. – First there was the matter of speeding — 48 mph in a 30 zone. Then the cocaine, the marijuana, and the open bottle. And also, said police, Taquana Darshell Wilson, 39, of Winona, had bloodshot watery eyes. She slurred. She had a problem walking a straight line. It gets worse: She tried to outsmart the breathalyzer device for a blood-alcohol check, police said. She breathed in when she told to breathe out and, told again several times how to do it, breathed out so gently that a reliable reading was impossible. So even without a blood-alcohol reading, she went to jail. Among charges are those for baggies with clear 2.5 grams of a white substance in a backpack. Police said it tested positive for cocaine. In a purse was 1.3 grams of marijuana, police said. Then when the stop was pretty much over, Wilson picked u her jacket from the console in the car, and there, police said, was an open container with alcohol. Too, she told police, she had a couple drinks at a bar a couple hours earlier. This was at Gilmore Avenue and South Baker Street about 1:30 p.m.

Wilson. Booked for refusing a blood-alcohol test, obstructing police, committing domestic assault, possessing controlled substances, stealing a car, speeding, drunken-driving.

WINONA, Minn. – Two cars collided at 90 degrees at the busy Fifth and Main streets intersection downtown, causing minor injuries to one driver. This was about 12:20 p.m. Police said Marie  Henrietta Koivesti, 75, of Winona ran a stop light. She was westbound on Fifth.

WINONA, Minn. – Duringa traffic stop for a bad taillight, a police officer approached the car and thought he saw a gun inside. It was and it wasn’t. It turned out to be a plastic gun look-alike with a can of pressurized mace pepper soray as ammo. In some circles, it’s called a “mace gun.” Also in the car, police said, the passenger had a bag stuffed with hypodermic needles. “Are you diabetic?” The passenger said no. Then why the needles? He was ticketed for a misdemeanor. This was about 3:15 a.m. at Mankato and Wabasha streets on the Far East End.

Mace gun. Where do they get these things? Online probably. Price: $50 give or take.

WINONA, Minn. – Two teen-age boys who had been squabbling at school took it online after school. The parents of one boy, age 14, were alarmed over a Snapchat video from the other boy, age 15, showed him apparently manipulating what looked like a real gun and real ammo. Police talked with both families, then decided to seek a warrant from a judge to search the home of the older boy. Three hours later, with the warrant, police searched the place. No trace of a gun was found. Nor ammo.

FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. – The group Friends of Merrick Turtles is hosting its annual Winter Fest on Saturday at Merrick State Park. The group will light trails for snow shoeing, cross country skiing and hiking. Hot dogs, s’mores, hot chocolate and apple cider will be at a bonfire. Winona State University astronomy prof Jennifer Anderson, hoping for clear skies. will have telescopes for observing Earth’s moon, Jupiter, Mars and perhaps the Green Comet. Time: 5 to 8 p.m. Admission: Free although state [ark pass needed.

Earlier: Once-in-lifetime: Comet on 50,000-year circuit

Basketball (men): Hamline 87, Saint Mary’s 84,

Basketball (women): Saint Mary’s 70, Hamline 57