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Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Vol. 84 / No. 238
Tryon, N.C. 28782
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
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Polk sheriff’s office training new drug dog Kimbo purchased with $11,500 of drug seizure money by Leah Justice
If you have any discarded, forgotten, or unwanted tools, materials, gadgets, and/ or items, the Mill Spring Ag Center will gladly give them a new home. The ag center will pick up items will even help clean out your garage, basement or storage unit if you are donating the items to the ag center. Urgent needs include a tractor, plumbing supplies, nails, screws, lumber, heating units, mulch and gravel, hand and power tools.
Here’s a list of upcoming meetings and events for area nonprofit community and governmental organizations:
Today
Polk County Mobile Recycling Unit, Wednesdays, Fire Department in Green Creek, 7 a.m. - noon. The Meeting Place Senior Center Wednesday activities include Tai Chi, 9 a.m.; ceramics, 9:30 a.m.; Italian club (Continued on page 2)
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office has a new officer of the K-9 species. Kimbo, a 4-year-old male Belgian Malinois, was recently purchased for $11,500 of drug seizure money. His handler and caregiver is sheriff’s officer Jared McFalls, who is training him to assist in narcotics operations, handler protection and tracking. The dog is expected to be certified in narcotics next week, McFalls said. Kimbo came from the Shallow Creek Kennel in Pennsyl(Continued on page 6)
Polk County Sheriff’s Office dog handler Jared McFalls with Kimbo, the sheriff’s office’s new drug dog. (photo by Leah Justice)
Three meth labs found in Mill Spring woods by Leah Justice
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office discovered three meth lab sites on Monday, Jan. 9 in the woods in Mill Spring. That discovery places the county at the top of the list for meth labs in the state so far for 2012. After going four years without a methamphetamine lab,
Polk County has uncovered six sites in the last five months. No arrests have yet been made in this case, but the investigation continues. Polk’s narcotic investigator, who cannot be named, said he believes the same person created all three labs, because similar materials were used in all three.
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All were found within a quartermile of each other. On Sunday, Jan. 8, a company discovered unusual items in the woods that could be seen from the road and contacted sheriff’s officers. Once the first lab was discovered, the other two labs (Continued on page 3)