State Police have arrested four people in Bedford in connection with a drug smuggling operation.
Two men and two women are accused of being members of a drug trafficking organization. Police say that the group was responsible for “a large number” of illegal drugs entering Lawrence County.
During a routine traffic stop on the corner of 13th and U Streets, Sgt. Greg Day and a police dog named ZaZu discovered that driver Dylan Meadows, a 29-year-old Bedford resident, was in possession of a used syringe containing methamphetamine residue.
After obtaining a warrant to search Meadows’s apartment, police found nine grams of meth, alongside digital scales and plastic bags.
While executing a search on a residence on Old SR 450, state troopers arrested two individuals, Allison Dalton of Bedford and Bradley Crawford of Bloomington, for possession of three grams of heroin and two grams of cocaine.
That evening, Day and Detective Josh Allen searched the garage of Christine Blackburn, of Bedford, and discovered 75 grams of meth and more digital scales.
Police say all four arrests were related to the same drug trafficking organization. The investigation was carried out jointly by the State Police Drug Enforcement Section and the State Police Bloomington District Aggressive Criminal Enforcement Session.
