A citizen’s tip about an impaired driver led to an arrest for multiple drug-related charges.
Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Deputy Teancum Clark was sent to find the vehicle on south U.S. 31 at 11:44 a.m. Tuesday, deputies said.
Clark found the vehicle, a white Chevrolet Trailblazer, on Norcross Lane, deputies said. He stopped the vehicle and contacted the driver, identified as Megan Ison, 34, Butlerville, deputies said.
Clark detected the odor of marijuana and Ison handed him a hand-rolled cigarette with a burned end and a green leafy substance inside, deputies said. She told Clark she had several other drug-related items in her vehicle.
Ison was taken to Columbus Regional Hospital to be checked before being arrested on preliminary charges of possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana, possession of paraphernalia, operating a vehicle while intoxicated and driving while suspended with a prior conviction, deputies said.
She has since been released from the Bartholomew County Jail.
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