COLUMBUS, Ind. — A report of suspicious activity in a vehicle led to two drug arrests Sunday evening.
Columbus police approached a car in the 200 block of North Gladstone Avenue at 6:35 p.m. Officers observed the driver, Kurt Whitchurch, 36, of Columbus, attempting to conceal something under the seat and in the center console. When officers ordered Whitchurch out of the vehicle, they found a plastic bag with a white substance in it. When the passenger, Cori Fortner, 30, of North Vernon, got out of the car, police found a syringe where she had been sitting. The white substance tested positive for methamphetamine.
Whitchurch and Fortner were taken to the Bartholomew County Jail.