Randy Scott Clark, 22, Austin, was arrested on a warrant Wednesday for failure to appear.

Friday, August 11, 2000

Randy Scott Clark, 22, Austin, was arrested on a warrant Wednesday for failure to appear.

According to the Mower County Sheriff’s Department, it was the 16th such warrant to be issued for Clark.

Mower County Sheriff Barry J. Simonson, a veteran of the Austin Police Department as well as sheriff, said the 16 warrants is a record and he is unaware of no larger number ever being issued for an offender.

Man faces multiple charges

The driver of a vehicle stopped for erratic driving is also a suspect in a pellet-gun shooting at the Trader’s Exchange bar in downtown Austin.

According to an Austin Police Department report, Mark Snater, 42 of Austin was taken into custody at 5:18 a.m. Sunday.

Austin police and Mower County Sheriff’s Department deputies were sent to the area of 711 2nd Ave. NE early Saturday morning to locate a driver and the vehicle, who was observed driving erratically in the city.

The vehicle was spotted on Interstate 90, west of the 28th Street NE intersection.

With police and sheriff’s deputy cars trailing it, the vehicle continued eastbound until it finally halted.

The car was identified as one that had been involved in a hit-and-run accident overnight Friday.

Snater was handcuffed and taken into custody and an inventory made of his vehicle before impoundment.

The inventory revealed two sling shots, a 357 caliber handgun, buck knife, white gloves and ammunition for the sling shots and pellet gun.

Also found was a list of Austin police officers’s names and addresses, plus that of a former Minnesota State Patrol trooper.

Austin police were also called to the Trader’s Exchange bar in downtown Austin, where employees and patrons reported the front window shot out by pellets. Before the window was shot out, Snater had visited the bar and was seen by several witnesses and heard discussing his recent termination from employment at the business.

He is being held in jail pending a court appearance on multiple charges.