COLUMBUS, Ind. — A local man was arrested after an alert about a suspicious person in the area of North U.S. 31 and Woodland Parks Drive at 6:42 p.m. Tuesday.
Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Deputy Brandon Sellers responded to the area and located a male subject and recognized him as Isaiah Perry, 32, Columbus, who had an outstanding Bartholomew County arrest warrant, deputies said.
Sellers placed Perry under arrest and located narcotics paraphernalia and a digital scale in a bag in his possession, deputies said. Sellers also located suspected methamphetamine, found in a jacket, that the suspect had apparently dropped near a residence in the area.
Perry was taken to the Bartholomew County Jail on preliminary charges of possession of methamphetamine, possession of paraphernalia and the arrest warrant, deputies said.
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