WINONA, Minn. – Police found a Winona man loitering in an alley within 100 feet of an address from which he was barred by a court order. In frisking him, police found the key to a nearby apartment that had just been reported stolen. Arrested was Christopher James Ozmun, 40. This was about 1 p.m. It was not a good afternoon for Ozmun. He was charged tentatively with violating a stay-away court order, possessing stolen property,and, oh yes, stealing a bicycle. He was on somebody else’s bike, police said. The arrest was in the 700 block of Front Street on the Far End. A couple hours earlier, a woman living in the 100 block of High Forest Street had called police that her apartment key missing from the work boot where she kept it hidden at the entrance. When police called her that Ozmun perjaps had the missing key, she walked over. Yes, it was hers, she said. Did she know Ozmun? No, she said. Her apartment had been entered, at least unlatched, she saoid. She was unsure if anything had been taken.
Ozmun. Making things worse, police said, was a key on his person.