Secret Service Gives $2,000 to Arnold Police Department

The U.S. Secret Service will award $2,000 to the Arnold Police Department for providing information that led to federal arrests. 

“It is forfeiture money and must be spent through the Secret Service,” Police Chief Robert Shockey said during a city council meeting on Feb. 17.

Shockey also said the department must spend the money quickly or lose it.

The Secret Service suggested the police department use the money to buy iPads or technology to help detectives during investigations.

The police department will spend $2,500 in forfeiture money currently in its accounts to buy all the items, Shockey said.

The department has about $20,000 in forfeiture money in its accounts but needed the council’s approval to spend the money on technology, Shockey said. The money from the Secret Service would go into the department’s account after the technology is purchased.

The council voted, 8-0, to allow the expenditure.

Clarification: Robert Shockey is the proper name of the Arnold Police Chief. An earlier version of this article did not provide Chief Shockey's first name. The reporter and the copy editor erred.