Around 8:30 Friday night, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a stolen Polaris from an outbuilding near 6656 278th Road.
At 9:30 p.m., a Jackson County Sheriff’s Deputy located the stolen four-wheeler on a section of minimum maintenance road on North Road, north of 310 Road. The suspect, Colten Taft Merriman, 22, returned to the road attempting to get a different vehicle he was driving unstuck.
Deputies said Merriman gave a false name when asked, and was in possession of what looked to be methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.
Merriman has been booked into the Jackson County Jail on charges of burglary, possession of meth and drug paraphernalia, felony theft, no insurance, illegal tags and illegal use of a minimum maintenance road.