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4 held after raid on meth lab

Long
Jordan
Hastings
Crawford

Four people were in the Kosciusko County Jail on Tuesday morning after a drug raid in Winona Lake.

County Drug Task Force officers searched a home in the 300 block of Mineral Springs Avenue on Monday evening and reported finding methamphetamine and an active meth lab.

Four people were arrested on preliminary charges of felony manufacturing meth within 1,000 feet of a school -- Myles Scott Jordan, 22, of Warsaw; Mark Raymond Hastings, 42, of Winona Lake; Kelsey Nicole Long, 20, of Warsaw; and Dustin Troy Crawford, 20, of Claypool.

Each was being held on $20,000 bond, according to a written statement from the sheriff's department.

The Indiana State Police Clandestine Lab team was called to deal with the methamphetamine and lab.

The task force was assisted by officers from the Winona Lake Police Department, Warsaw Police Department and the sheriff's department.