WINONA, Minn. – Police tasered a man who fled out the front door of a Mankato Avenue flop-house after police knocked at the backdoor with several arrest warrants. Police said an officer stationed at the front door tried to intercept Austin John Presson, age 29, but he kept running. This was about 9:20 p.m. Police gave this account: Officers went to the back door of the residence in the 400 block of Mankato, knowing from experience that itinerant tenants, mostly without an address of their own, came and went the back way. The owner of the house, , answered the officer’s knock at and said he would fetch Presson. When Presson saw the officers, he slammed the door shut and ran out the front. He xharged by the officer at the front door. Although ordered to halt, he didn’t. The officer fired his stun-gun. The taser jolt hit Presson in a hand. He attempted to grab the officer’s taser gun. By then, the other officers had come around from the back and wrestled Presson to the ground and cuffed him with little further resistance. Presson was charged with fleeing on foot resisting arrest, and attempting to disarm an officer.
Presson. Was being sought on four Winona County warrants for probation violations. At least one warrant involved disorderly conduct.