HENRYVILLE – Wednesday, March 6, 2024: Troopers arrested a Scott County man on felony drug charges after he crashed his car on U.S. 31 in Clark County.
Shortly before 3:00 a.m. on Wednesday, Trooper Taylor Wolfe responded to the report of a single-vehicle roll-over crash on U.S. 31 near Brownstown Road in Henryville. Responding officers were also alerted that the driver was removing articles from the car and placing them in a wooded area near the crash.
Once on the scene, officers identified the driver as 35-year-old Nathan Baldwin of Scottsburg. As a result of the investigation, officers believe Baldwin attempted to avoid deer on the wet roadway and lost control of his Camaro. The vehicle left the roadway and overturned in a ditch on the west side of the road.
While continuing the investigation, officers located a backpack lying in the woods. The bag contained cocaine and methamphetamine, along with drug paraphernalia and information allegedly linking the backpack to Baldwin.
Following the investigation, ambulance personnel medically cleared Nathan Baldwin at the scene. Baldwin was then arrested and transported to the Clark County Jail on felony charges of unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon, dealing in cocaine or a narcotic drug, dealing meth, obstruction of justice, possession of a ledge drug injection devices and possession of drug paraphernalia.
