A traffic stop for an expired vehicle registration led to the arrests of two Columbus residents for drug possession charges Wednesday.
At 4:50 p.m., CPD officers observed a vehicle with an expired license plate.
Officers stopped the car near 17th Street and Maple Street and spoke to the driver, Anne M. Lovelace, 41, of 2292 Ohio Ave., and her passenger, Kristopher A. Lobdell, 34, of 3040 Seneca Court, said Lt. Matt Harris, Columbus Police Department spokesman.
A short time later officers requested a Columbus Police Department canine respond to the scene. The canine alerted to the odor of narcotics coming from the vehicle, Harris said.
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Officers conducted a search of the vehicle and reportedly located a bag containing methamphetamine inside the car, Harris said.
Lovelace and Lobdell each were taken into custody and transported to the Bartholomew County Jail where each was being held on a preliminary charge of possession of methamphetamine, a Level 6 felony.
Lovelace was being held in jail in lieu of $57,500 bond, jail officials said. Lobdell was released from jail.
