Traffic Stop Leads to Heroin Possession Arrests

police-lightsA man and woman from Warsaw spent Thanksgiving night in the Marshall County Jail after a traffic stop on U.S. 30 just east of U.S. 31.

The Marshall County Dispatch Center got a call just before 10 p.m. about a vehicle that was all over the roadway on U.S. 31 southbound from U.S. 6. A county officer pulled the vehicle over and determined the driver, 24-year-old Lucas Ryan Elder of Warsaw, was impaired.

Lucas Elder
Lucas Elder
Andrea French
Andrea French

He was arrested on charges of possession of heroin, possession of paraphernalia, unlawful possession of a syringe, operating a vehicle while intoxicated endangering a person and operating a vehicle while intoxicated controlled substance.

His passenger, 24-year-old Andrea Nicle French of Warsaw, was also arrested. She faces possession of heroin, possession of paraphernalia and unlawful possession of a syringe charges.