By Kathy McCarty
Staff Writer
PRESQUE ISLE — Four individuals are facing drug-related charges following the Sept. 14 search of a Main Street apartment.
The Presque Isle Police Department received a complaint around 3:48 p.m. from a neighbor reporting the strong smell of marijuana coming from a nearby residence. No officers were immediately available to dispatch but later responded to the call around 6:20 p.m.
Photo courtesy of PIPD
DOZER, the Presque Isle Police Department’s drug-sniffing K-9, is being credited with finding over 5 ounces of marijuana in a Main Street apartment last week.
According to a report on the PIPD’s Facebook page, Sgt. Mark Barnes, Officers Joey Seeley and Kevin Reed, as well as Reed’s drug-sniffing K-9, Dozer, responded to the suspected apartment at the intersection of Church and Main streets where eight persons were identified, ranging in age from 14 to 24.
Dozer was deployed into the apartment where he subsequently located and alerted to the presence of illegal drugs and paraphernalia throughout the apartment. In all, 5.3 ounces of illegally possessed marijuana, .5 grams of bath salts, several illegally possessed prescription pills and numerous items of drug paraphernalia were seized with a total value of approximately $2,500.
Three adults and one juvenile have been charged with criminal and civil drug violations, according to the Facebook post.
“Dana Patten, 24, and Tyler Vrieze,19, both of Presque Isle, were charged and given a Nov. 6 court date. Patten was charged with sale/use of drug paraphernalia, while Vrieze was charged with possession of a schedule W drug,” said Deputy Chief Laurie Kelly, of the PIPD.
No other names or information on the case was available at presstime.
