WINONA, Minn. – For the sixth time in three months, a Dakota man has been arrested and booked for intentionally inhaling compressed air from everyday cannisters of dust-off products. Huffing, it’s called. It gives a quick high. Alas, it can be lethal. Keith Roy Schroeder, 35, was caught twice in restrooms at the Winona Walmart – first about 12 noon and again about 2 p.m. The second time he was taken by police to the Winona hospital for a check on whether it was safe to jail him. He was cleared medically, then booked for toxic substance abuse for intoxication and for violating an earlier no-trespass order not to go into Walmart anymore. The arrest followed three huffing incidents the day before in Winona — at Burggraf’s hardware, Walmart and Target. In those cases, the huffer got away. In the latest Walmart incidents, police said that Schroeder was huffing in a women’s restroom, then left and grabbed more canisters from a shelf and wenr into a family restroon for more huffing. The pattern, said police, was to find dust-off products on store aisles, to stash containers in his clothing, and to rush to a restroom stall, and to sit and huff.
Schroeder. Linked to five store restroom benders in two days, plus multiple other incidents.