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Tip leads to 3 drug arrests

Following up on a tip about possible drug activity, police searched a Wolcottville-area home Tuesday, resulting in three arrests.

The sheriff’s departments from Noble and LaGrange counties reported finding items used to make methamphetamine in a home in the 500 block of West County Line Road.

The homeowner, David L. Slone, whose age was not provided, was charged with possession of meth, possession of marijuana and maintaining a public nuisance, police said in a statement.

Two others at the home, one from Kimmell and one from the city of LaGrange, were charged with visiting a common nuisance, the statement said.

Assisting at the scene were the LaGrange Police Department, the Wolcottville Town Marshal’s Office and the Indiana State Police.