Overview
- The Chaffee County Sheriff's Office confirmed Merrifield was booked on November 24 on misdemeanor domestic violence and obstructing telephone service, then released on bond.
- Online records list the charge as "telephone-obstruct service," a Colorado class 1 misdemeanor tied to preventing access to communications, including emergency calls.
- An arrest-warrant affidavit reported by TMZ says wife Lorrana told police Merrifield seized her phone, blocked contact with her family, threatened to call ICE, and deactivated Wi‑Fi on her devices.
- A mandatory protection order was granted after his release, and court records show an in-court appearance set for December 2 in Chaffee County.
- Multiple outlets report that many photos of Lorrana have been removed from Garrick and Dannielle Merrifield’s Instagram accounts, following a recent public announcement of the couple’s July birth of daughter Sarah Mae.