CRIME & SAFETY

WINONA, Min. (WLAX/WEUX) – One person is dead after a motorcycle hit a pickup truck head-on over the weekend. The Buffalo County Sheriff’s Office says at around 5:45 Sunday evening they got a call about the crash just north of Winona. When crews arrived, they found the driver of the motorcycle had died, and the driver of the pickup truck was uninjured. The sheriff’s office says it found that the motorcycle driver crossed the center line while going around a blind curve in the road and hit the pickup truck head-on.

TOWN OF BUFFALO, Wis. (WEAU) - One person is dead following a motorcycle versus pickup truck crash in Buffalo County. According to a press release from the Buffalo County Sheriff’s Office, on July 21, 2024, at approximately 5:43 p.m. authorities received a report of a motorcycle versus pickup truck crash on Gin Mill Lane near the intersection of Gin Mill Lane, Rooster Ridge Lane, and Chicken Valley Road in the Town of Buffalo.

TROY, Minn. – A Steele County man, 80 miles from home, Kyle Steven Eckhoff, 48, of Ellendale, was arrested for drugs while parked at a remote cell tower in extreme southwest Winona County. A deputy found Eckhoff’s vehicle after a caller reported a black SUV suspiciously at the driveway into the tower in the 31000 block of Ma Dailey Road. The deputy said Eckhoff was jittery and sweating profusely and making no sense. “Why sweating?” “I’m always nervous around law enforcement.” The deputy said he asked several times for permission to search the vehicle but couldn’t get a straight answer. The deputy said Eckhoff kept repeating: “I have nothing to hide.” “Is that a yes?” “I have nothing to hide.” When a second deputy arrived, Eckhoff relented. In frisking the vehicle, rhe deputies found an improvised water bong, a marijuana pipe, and a pipe commonly used for meth. Asked then whether he was high on meth, Eckhoff said no. Asked again, the deputies said, he explained he had experienced car problems and pulled over at the tower and smoked some meth. The deputies found a plastic baggy in Eckhoff’s shoes. That, said the first deputy, probably explained why Eckhoff had been wiggling around somewhat frantically in the vehicle’s cab and bobbing up and down – concealing the meth — when the deputy drove up. Originally Eckhoff had explained he was tidying up cookie crumbs in the passenger seat. The meth totaled 1.5 grams, the deputies said. Eckhoff was hauled 30 miles to the Winona County jail and booked four hours later.

Law enforcement arrested a man threatening to kill a Lewiston woman after he sent her threatening messages over text including a photo of himself in military gear with an assault rifle and another message in which he appeared to threaten to shoot the woman, Winona County Sheriff’s Office officials said.