Three Hobart
residents were arrested Tuesday on multiple drug charges after a trooper
investigating a hit-and-run crash on the Indiana Toll Road was told by one
of three to “get a warrant,” the Indiana State Police said.
According to
police, at 10:40 p.m. Trooper Ala’a Hamed responded to the 14 mile marker on
the eastbound Toll Road, just east of Broadway, where he found that a 2013
Hyundai had been abandoned after hitting the concrete median wall. Inside
the vehicle Hamed also found a baggy of suspected marijuana and
paraphernalia, police said.
Following a tip on
the identity of the possible driver of the Hyundai, Hamed went to a
residence in Hobart, where Anthony Mason, 35, a roommate of the suspect,
greeted him at the door, stated he didn’t know where the driver was, and
refused Hamed entry into the residence, telling him to get a warrant, police
said.
Hamed--who police
said detected the odor of marijuana at the residence--went about doing so
and was waiting for it outside the residence when another roommate arrived
home, Amanda Gettig, 29, who later came outside to say that she had the
suspect, Jordon K. Grindey, 26, on the phone. Grindey admitted to being the
driver of the Hyundai but refused to tell troopers where exactly he was,
police said.
On receiving the
warrant, troopers were unable to persuade anyone inside the residence to
open the door, so they made forcible entry and found Grindey in an upstairs
bedroom. Mason and Getting were also taken into custody in other bedrooms,
and troopers recovered a variety of drugs and paraphernalia from the home:
suspected marijuana, cocaine, THC oil, benzodiazepine pill, scales, and
grinders.
Grindey was charged
with leaving the scene of an accident and operating while
intoxicated-refusal; Mason and Gettig were charged with assisting a criminal
and possession of hash oil; Gettig was charged with possession of cocaine
and dealing marijuana; and all three were charged with maintaining a common
nuisance, possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana, and
possession of paraphernalia, police said.