WINONA, Minn.– The police officer making a traffic stop over the Highway 43 bridge to Latsch Island said he could smell freshly lit marijuana wafting from the driver’s open window. Gabriel John Penic, 20, of Winona, was taken in on suspicion of driving high. This was about 7:55 p.m. The officer said Penc’s eyes were blood-shot, his speech slurred, and his gait unsteady. At the jail a urine sample was taken, but because the county doesn’t have equipment to test for drugs, the sample was sent to the state crime lab. The result, when returned, will determine whether a charge is warranted.
Penic. Marijuana impaiment suspected.