ELGIN, Minn. — After a day-long hunt through cornfields, police took a Rochester man into custody. The Wabasha County sheriff’s office announced the arrest about 9:30 p.m. but released no details. At the county jail in Wabasha, records showed Drew Douglas Wiskow Davis, age 29, was in custody with burglary listed in the jail roster as the holding charge. Wiskow Davis had been sought in an episodic day on the run in the Elgin area 10 miles north of Eyota. For several hours there had been a police-ordered shelter-in-place order as they set up a one-mile perimeter with search hounds, drones and airborne thermal imaging equipment on a State Patrol aircraft.
Rap sheet
Wiskow Davis has a Rochester address. Earlier he lived in St. Charles, Preston and Minneapolis. Numerous scrapes with the law include:
> A 2023 Fillmore County arrest for burglary, illicit drugs, theft and fraud.
> A 2022 Washington County conviction for theft, illegal ammunition possession, forgery and fleeing an officer. The conviction was overturned on appeal because of a police procedural error.
> A 2019 Wabasha County arrest, in Plainview, for driving a stolen vehicle. Police found 80 items of stolen property including a firearm in the vehicle. He also was charged with bringing contraband, specifically two containers of meth, into the jail.
> A 2018 Winona arrest for fleeing police in a vehicle and on foot. He also was charged as being under the influence.
Wiskow Davis. Demands by police to surrender went unanswered for hours.