MERRILL POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORT; TRAFFIC STOP LEADS TO K-9 DASTY POSITIVE ALERT FOR METHAMPHETAMINE

During the week ending December 7, the Merrill Police Department responded to fourteen incidents, while officers conducted approximately twelve traffic stops and 38 security checks. On Wednesday a woman reported that she accidentally left her cash at a store’s self-checkout, and another customer picked it up and used it. Staff recognized the customer, and officers contacted her. The woman said she took the money by mistake, and it was returned to the rightful owner.

Other activity included two reports of probation violations and bail jumping, three calls for potential fraud, three reports of theft,  two instances of disorderly conduct – one involving a motor vehicle, one instance of possible battery, one call for property damage, and a traffic stop that ended with an arrest for possession of methamphetamine after K-9 Dasty made a positive alert on the vehicle.