Four Gerard of Minnesota juveniles, who ran away, apparently returned to vandalize classrooms at the residential treatment facility.

Monday, March 13, 2000

Four Gerard of Minnesota juveniles, who ran away, apparently returned to vandalize classrooms at the residential treatment facility.

According to an Austin Police Department report, the juveniles, two males and two females between the ages of 13 and 15 are now being held in the Many Rivers Juvenile Holding Facility at Rochester and face possible criminal damage to property and burglary charges.

The vandalism occurred between 1:16 and 4 a.m. Sunday and the juveniles were caught on the premises of the for Jay C. Hormel estate now used as a residential treatment facility at the east edge of Austin.

Family trip stalled

An apparent family trip was interrupted, during a routine traffic stop early Saturday morning the yielded drugs and a subject wanted on an arrest warrant.

According to Mower County Sheriff Barry J. Simonson, a sheriff’s deputy stopped a vehicle for speeding along Highway 56 near Taopi at 3:16 a.m. Saturday.

While issuing a verbal warning to the driver, Michelle Eotoves, 26, Montgomery, another passenger car passed at a slow rate of speed.

The deputy watched the car stop at the first gravel road intersection and turn north. Asked if the driver recognized the vehicle, Eotoves said "No."

When the second vehicle completed a square-circle of township gravel roads and returned to Highway 56, the deputy also stopped that car.

While walking back from the vehicle to the deputy’s patrol car to verify a driver’s license, the driver got out of the car and ran away from the scene, stepping from his shoes on the way into the nearby farm fields.

Eotoves was secured at the scene when backup deputies arrived and canine units used to track the male subject, who was quickly found near the area hiding in bushes.

Bruce Parker, 29, Montgomery, the driver, and a passenger, Jeremy Pexa, 19, Elko, plus Eotoves were all charged, when bindles of a white powdery substance and drug paraphernalia were found in both vehicles.

In all, three of five people in the two vehicles were arrested at the scene. A grandmother and her granddaughter, traveling with the two cars’ parties were not charged and allowed to go free, according to Sheriff Simonson.