Two arrested in Taylorsville mobile home raid

Authorities say that an investigation has led to two people being arrested at a Taylorsville mobile home park on drug-related charges.

According to the Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department, the city-county Joint Narcotics Enforcement Team and Intelligence Led Policing Unit served a search warrant at the home on Thursday after a long investigation. Inside the mobile home in the 7700 block of Mill Run they discovered a quarter pound of methamphetamine, hydrocodone pills, suspected fentanyl, items used in the sale of narcotics such as scales, along with a a handgun and about $2,000 in cash.

Police arrested 38-year-old Angel Sanders and 49-year-old Robert Siple, both of Taylorsville, on preliminary charges of dealing in Methamphetamine, a controlled substance and a narcotic drug, along with maintaining a common nuisance, and for possessing the drugs and paraphernalia.

The Joint Narcotics Enforcement Team is  a combined unit of the Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Office, the Columbus Police Department, and the Bartholomew County Prosecutor’s Office that targets the manufacturing and abuse of dangerous drugs in Columbus and Bartholomew County.

Photos courtesy of Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department.