Lakeville Police Chief: Car Crash Results in Drug Arrest

Officer Nic Stevens was training Officer Sarah Brockman on her first day in Field Training as a police officer one morning this week when they responded to a property damage crash. During the course of investigation of the crash, the officers discovered that the passenger in one of the vehicles had active arrest warrants for narcotics. The officers arrested the subject and also found suspected narcotics. The officers transported the subject to Dakota County Jail on the warrants and the pending narcotics possession charges. 

RABIES CLINIC

Last Saturday, we hosted our annual City of Lakeville rabies clinic at the Lakeville Police Station. This annual event is designed to give pet owners (dogs and cats) the opportunity to come in and have their animals vaccinated for rabies and to purchase a two-year dog license. Making sure that pets have current rabies vaccinations is an important public safety consideration in animal control and this annual event provides a convenient opportunity for pet owners to vaccinate their animals. 

Our Lakeville Police Animal Control Officer, Barb Maxwell, who is kept very busy answering over 1,500 animal calls a year, is responsible for organizing and running the Saturday morning clinic every year. ACO Maxwell made arrangements for a veterinarian and a vet technician to be on site to give the pets the rabies vaccinations and also arranged for people to assist her with issuing dog licenses to those clinic attendees that need them for their pets. 

We hold the clinic in the basement garage of the Police Station which works out very well not only because the garage provides a large space that is out of the elements, but also because the barking of the dogs at the clinic is confined to the basement area. 

Every year the clinic draws a large number of dog owners from the area. ACO Maxwell reported, “the day was sunny so we thought that we would have a good turnout. It was a pretty good turnout, but not as good as last year when it was 70 degrees.” This year 70 people, some with multiple animals, attended the clinic. There were 70 dogs and 8 cats vaccinated for rabies at the clinic. The majority of the attendees came from Lakeville and the surrounding area. 

HEAVY SNOW EVENT CLOSES SCHOOLS 

This past Monday and Tuesday saw a heavy, wet snow that lasted almost two days, leaving somewhere in the range of 10 inches of new snow on the ground, Travel in the city was challenging on Monday and Tuesday during the morning rush hours and the roadways were pretty much clear by the afternoon. The Lakeville Area Schools were closed on Tuesday due to the snow. According to the patrol shift supervisor working both days, Sergeant John Kornmann, there were actually very few calls and not any directly related to the weather. 

WEEKLY LPD SNAPSHOT

Sampling of LPD activity for the week of March 1 to March 8, 2013

Traffic crashes: 2 Alarms: 25 Animal Calls: 16 Medical Emergency Calls: 25 Thefts: 16 Traffic Stops: 151.