Waynesville traffic stop leads to drug-related arrest

Brandon L. Perkins
Brandon L. Perkins

A traffic stop in Waynesville Sunday morning led to a Columbus man’s arrest on drug-related charges.

Deputies pulled over the vehicle on South Jonesville Road and South Street at about 3:30 Sunday morning. After searching the backpack of a passenger in the vehicle, 38-year-old Brandon Perkins of McKinley Avenue, deputies allegedly found four syringes, one of which contained methamphetamine, and a glass smoking pipe, says Judy Jackson, spokeswoman for the Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department..

Perkins is facing preliminary charges of possession of methamphetamine, a legend drug injection device and drug paraphernalia