Two people were hurt in a motor vehicle accident on Monday.

Tuesday, July 10, 2001

Two people were hurt in a motor vehicle accident on Monday.

Alissa Todalen and a passenger, Brooke Morgan, were slightly injured in the one-vehicle mishap at 11:08 p.m. Monday.

According to an Austin Police Department report, the mishap occurred in the 300 block of 13th Street NE.

When officers arrived at the scene, the driver and her passenger were sitting on a porch nearby. The pair were taken to Austin Medical Center’s hospital emergency room for treatment of minor injuries.

More citations issued

For the second night, several citations were issued to people congregating in the First United Methodist Church parking lot near downtown Austin.

A similar incident occurred last weekend and more citations were issues.

Signs are posted warning trespassers the parking lot is off-limits after a certain hour.

The rule is similar to the curfew imposed on the Austin Municipal Pool parking lot forbidding congregating after 10:30 p.m.

Animal charges

A man was cited for keeping animals in the city limits.

Austin police were sent to 601 Third Ave. SE to investigate a report the residents there were keeping farm animals.

A child was home alone at the residence and showed the officers chickens kept under a pickup topper in the back yard.

It is, of course, illegal to keep farm animals in the city limits. In the past, Austin police also have received complaints of people slaughtering farm animals at their city residences.

The residents, keeping chickens in their back yard, will be charged by complaint summons, according to a police spokesman.

Pickup truck recovered

DEXTER – Dallas and Natalie Shawback have recovered their pickup truck after it apparently was stolen and taken for a joy ride to Red Wing.

According to a Mower County Sheriff’s Department report, the couple arrived home late Monday and discovered the pickup missing from their Dexter driveway.

About 30 minutes after the report was made, the Mower County Sheriff’s Department learned Red Wing police had stopped a truck matching the description. The driver bailed out of the truck and ran away.

Ranch client injured

A 13-year-old client at the Minnesota Sheriff’s Youth Program’s Austin Ranch School was injured Monday night.

According to a Mower County Sheriff’s Department report, the youth was being disciplined by staff and made to collect trash along the roadway in front of the ranch’s facilities at the south edge of Austin in Austin Township.

The youth was being transported by staff in a slow-moving vehicle, when he unbuckled his seat belt, open the vehicle’s door and jumped to the pavement.

The boy suffered injuries to his left knee, leg and shoulder and a bump over an eye. He was treated and released from Austin Medical Center’s hospital emergency room after being taken there by a Gold Cross Ambulance Service crew.

The mishap occurred near 9 p.m. Monday, according to the Sheriff’s Department report.

Saturation is successful

A NightCAP saturation enforcement effort by local law enforcement officers resulted in 79 vehicles being stopped in the Austin area Friday night.

According to Mower County Sheriff Barry J. Simonson, the effort was organized by the Minnesota State Patrol and utilized the services of offices of the Austin Police Department and Mower County Sheriff’s Department.

Held after the street dance events at the SPAMTOWN USA Festival in Austin, 25 citations were issued for such offenses as driving after revocation, no insurance, possession of small amounts of controlled substances and other violations.

Simonson said the aggressive efforts of law enforcement officers were designed to make Minnesota’s highways safer.

He said not only do officers discover driving violations or equipment failures, but they also discover people wanted on warrants, people in possession of drugs or drug paraphernalia and people in possession of burglary tools.

Suspicious watch theft

James Decker of Blooming Prairie claims to have lost his $5,000 Rolex diving watch.

The loss occurred, according to Decker, while he was incarcerated in the Mower County Jail.

According to a Mower County Sheriff’s Department report, Decker told investigators he laid down his watch in the cellblock area and it was discovered missing between 5 and 10 p.m. July 3.

The cellblock area was searched with negative results and no other resident of the jail offered Decker any assistance about the whereabouts of his watch.

Mower County Sheriff Barry J. Simonson said Decker did not report having a $5,000 Rolex diving model watch when he was booked into the jail a month ago, according to jail records.

Call Lee Bonorden at 434-2232 or e-mail him at lee.bonorden@austindailyherald.com.