Slumbering Individual Triggers High Alert in Roosevelt, Minnesota

ROOSEVELT, MN (trfnews.i234.me) A man found sleeping in the Legion Hall put Roosevelt, Minnesota on high alert Sunday.
the discovery of a sleeping man in the legion hall followed by a manhunt caused quite a stir in roosevelt minnesota on sunday the story began early sunday morning when steve christensen went to the hall to turn up the heat in preparation for the card party scheduled there that afternoon christensen noticed some weird things at the hall including an open pack of frozen sausages in the sink that the legion auxiliary uses for their pancake breakfast steve returned later in the morning with his wife uh charlotte charlie to set up the tables for the card party it was then that marlon read allen of the legion auxiliary stopped by to pick up a key the three started looking around the hall and noticed a broken window in the kitchen door candy wrappers and other things out of place including a door off its tracks in the on the closet near the stage steve and charlie were fixing the door when steve looked in the closet and saw an american flag on the floor when it seemed to move he realized there was a man under the flag when the man stood up and looked at us steve said the adrenaline really started flowing oh god i thought steve said charlie ran outside to call 9-1-1 while steve confronted the sleeping man and the conversation escalated quickly he said the cops are coming he told the man who answered that he would fight him if he tried something steve didn’t try to retain him which law enforcement officials later told him was the right thing to do the man escaped through the broken door and ran into the woods north of the hall when law enforcement officials arrived they started a search of the woods nearby and throughout the town upon further investigation it was found that the man had taken boxes of napkins and stacks of tablecloths to make a bed for himself in the closet he had also found a tote of candy prizes that were used for the card parties and eaten them as well as the and drank poppy found in the fridge and kitchen empty beer cans were also found the legion does not allow alcoholic beverages to be served at the hall so presumably the man brought those with him among the most upsetting things to the legion members was the fact that the man had taken the new tablecloth used at the p-o-w-m-i-a table to use as a pillow and covered himself with the american flag as a blanket that is so disrespectful disrespectful steve christensen said we’ll keep you updated i’m Neil Berg reporting for pageonepublications.com