Report: Son said father sent him to Ohio to buy meth
Douglas Walker
PORTLAND, Ind. – A young Delaware County man accused of transporting meth from southwestern Ohio back to Indiana reportedly told authorities he did so at the direction of his father.
Tyler Lee Wilson, 21, of Eaton, is charged in Jay Circuit Court with dealing in meth and resisting law enforcement.
According to a Jay County sheriff’s office report, a deputy arrested Wilson on Feb. 2 after receiving a tip from a Muncie Police Department narcotics officer that the Eaton man would be returning from Ohio with drugs.
Wilson, a passenger in a car driven by a Winchester woman, was taken into custody after a traffic stop near Ind. 67 and State Line Road.
After a Jay County police K-9, Mack, indicated there were controlled substances in the 2003 Honda, Wilson reportedly became “combative” during a search and removed two white bags containing a “white crystal substance” – later determined to be meth – from his pants.
Deputies said Wilson threw one of the bags into a nearby yard and another onto the hood of a sheriff’s car. In all, 41 grams of meth was recovered, investigators said.
In a later interview, Wilson allegedly told deputies had made “numerous trips to Trotwood, Ohio, to purchase methamphetamine for his father.”
Asked whether his father dealt meth, Tyler Wilson reportedly said, “Well, he doesn’t have a job.”
The dealing charge against the younger Wilson – who is being held in the Jay County jail under a $40,000 bond – carries a maximum 16-year prison term.
Wilson’s father – Jason L. Wilson, 41, of Montpelier – was arrested three days later in Randolph County under nearly identical circumstances, allegedly while returning from southwest Ohio with newly purchased meth.
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The elder Wilson is scheduled to stand trial June 3 in Randolph Circuit Court on related charges of possession of meth, maintaining a common nuisance and possession of a handgun without a license.
He is also set to stand trial in June in Delaware County, where he faces meth-related charges filed last September.
Douglas Walker is a news reporter at The Star Press. Contact him at 765-213-5851 or at dwalker@muncie.gannett.com.