GREENE CO. – On Saturday afternoon, Indiana State Trooper C. Garvin was working near I-69 and State Road 445 during the High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Awareness (HIDTA) campaign when a vehicle stop resulted in an arrest and discovery of meth.
Cody Kay Etherton, 39, of Nineveh was found to be wanted on two active warrants. One warrant was out of Johnson County and one was out of Owen County.
During the stop, Trooper Garvin found Etherton to be in possession of marijuana and approximately 6.7 grams of meth.
Etherton was arrested and transported to the Greene County Jail on felony charges of dealing and possession of meth and a misdemeanor charge of possession of marijuana
The High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program was created by Congress with the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988. It provides assistance to Federal, State, Local, and Tribal Law Enforcement agencies operating in areas determined to be critical drug-trafficking regions of the United States. This grant program is administered by the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
