Drug investigation leads to seizure of $8.5k in heroin
Local anti-drug investigations led to the seizure of $8,400 dollars worth of heroin during a traffic stop.
Columbus police and Bartholomew County deputies were watching a vehicle when the driver made several minor traffic violations as he pulled onto Interstate 65 at Edinburgh. Officers stopped the driver, smelled marijuana in the vehicle and a Bartholomew County police dog alerted to narcotics inside.
While searching the driver, 21-year-old Jacquise Reed of Indianapolis, officers felt an item in his pants. When they reached the jail at about 9 last night, a bag containing 85 grams of suspected heroin was found in the back seat of the patrol vehicle where Reed was held. A search at the jail also recovered oxycodone pills from his pants.
Sheriff Matt Myers says that amount of heroin is too much for personal use and indicates Reed was involved in selling the drugs.
He is facing charges including dealing heroin, possessing drugs including heroin, a narcotic and marijuana, trafficking with an inmate and driving without ever receiving a license.
Myers credited the work of the Bartholomew County Joint Narcotics Team, along with Columbus Police Departments Intelligence Led Policing Unit with the investigation that led to the traffic stop.
The Joint Narcotics Enforcement Team is a combined unit of the Bartholomew County Sheriffs Office, the Columbus Police Department and the Bartholomew County Prosecutors Office targeting the manufacturing and abuse of dangerous drugs in Columbus and Bartholomew County.