BEDFORD – A Mitchell man was detained on drug charges after an Indiana State Police trooper stopped his vehicle on Mitchell Road in Bedford.
Arrested was 39-year-old John Beyers, of Mitchell, on felony charges of dealing and possession of meth, unlawful possession of a syringe.
According to a probable cause affidavit, Beyers was arrested on Monday, January 8.
Trooper Chance Humphrey was on routine patrol when he spotted a pickup truck traveling south on Mitchell Road that did not have a working license plate light.
The trooper stopped the female driver of the Chevrolet S-10. Her passenger was John Beyers.
Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Joshua Rhoades and his canine partner Dusty arrived on the scene along with Troopers Jesse Crane and Tyler Trueblood.
When the driver and Beyers were asked to step out of the vehicle, Dusty alerted police to drugs in the pickup truck.
Trooper Crane located a zip-lock bag in the passenger seat that contained five smaller individual baggies. Those five baggies contained between three to five grams of meth. They also found three other baggies that contained meth residue. A black drawstring bag containing several prescription bottles with Beyers’ name on them, a digital scale with meth residue, and a package of syringes was also located.
Beyers claimed someone had given him the drugs, and they were not his, and the meth located in the truck was not his. Beyers was detained.
