WINONA, Minn. – Police arrested a drunk man with a loaded pistol at a neighborhood bar in a West Side residential industrial area. Officers had been called by a bartender who said a hopelessly drunk man wouldn’t leave. When officers arrived, Nathaniel Wayne Burke, 25, of Isanti, was being assisted out by friends because he was falling over and stumbling and couldn’t navigate his way out by himself. It was then that an officer spotted a 9mm pistol under Lee’s shirt in an appendix holster over his belly button. The officer confiscated the gun, which had one round loaded in the chamber and five more rounds in a magazine in the holster. Witnesses said that Burke had been showing off the gun. Hiss blood-alcohol tested at 0.30% — almost four times the legal definition of intoxication. Because of the high alcohol level, Burke was dispatched the hospital to see if his condition warranted detoxification. Burke did have a permit to carry a weapon, but being drink when doing so is against the rules, Police put the weapon into their locked evidence storage room. Lee may or may not get it back.
Burke. Charges include possession of a firearms while intoxicated. Arrest at Steiny’s Bar, a.k.a. the Cornerstone Bar.