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V1-18 <br /> <br />HASTI'NGS <br /> <br />POLI'CE DEPARTMENT <br /> <br />MEMO <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />FROM: <br />DATE: <br />SUBJECT: <br /> <br />Mayor Mike Werner <br />Hastings City Council Members <br />Chief McMenomy <br />January 20, 2004 <br />Consent Agenda Item -Allocation of Seized Drug Money <br /> <br />This memo will request council approval for allocation of seized drug money from a case <br />which occurred in 1999. <br /> <br />In 1999 Sgt. Munson, who was a member of the Dakota County East Metro Drug Task <br />Force, and East Metro Drug Task Force officers worked at a RAVE dance held at the <br />Hastings Armory on November 26th, 1999. Sgt. Munson and the East Metro Drug Task <br />Force members were working undercover and observed illegal drug sales going on at this <br />RAVE party. They subsequently arrested a subject from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and he <br />was charged with felony level illegal sales of drugs. Taken and seized from that individual <br />at that time was $1,760.86 in money. The Dakota County East Metro Drug Task Force did <br />charge the individual and he was convicted. <br /> <br />In the beginning of the year 2000 the Dakota County East Metro Drug Task Force <br />disbanded and combined with the West Dakota County Drug Task Force, creating the <br />Dakota County Drug Task Force unit: I have spoken to Scott Hersey, Dakota County <br />Attorney in charge of the drug task force cases, regarding disbursement of the drug money <br />from this case. He advised that since the Dakota County East Metro Drug Task Force is <br />no longer in existence and the case was not charged through the overall Dakota County <br />Drug Task Force it is his opinion that the money, $1,760.86, is the property of the City of <br />Hastings as the crime did occur in our jurisdiction. I am requesting that this money be <br />allocated to the Hastings Police Department DARE account as it was a drug case seizure <br />and the DARE program is an anti-drug program. This would help keep a solid foundation <br />in the DARE budget as we did cut some of the DARE funds in the 2004 police department <br />budget. <br /> <br />If you have any questions regarding this request please do not hesitate to contact me. <br /> <br />MCM/mjc <br /> <br /> <br />