ELIZABETHTOWN, Ind. –Bartholomew County Sheriff deputies arrested two people on weapon and narcotics charges on Friday.
At about 3:41 a.m., deputies were sent to a report of a suspicious person in the 300 block of Fifth Street in Elizabethtown.
Deputies were told a male had approached the caller in the home’s driveway and during the encounter, the male suspect, later identified as Joshua Woodruff, 46, Elizabethtown, displayed a handgun and demanded the victim open the trunk of a vehicle.
Woodruff then left the victim’s home and walked to his residence a short distance away.
Deputies later learned that Woodruff apparently believed that the victim had stolen from him and that the items were in the trunk, said Sgt. Dane Duke, sheriff’s department spokesman.
While deputies were investigating the incident, Woodruff exited his home and began yelling at the deputies. Woodruff was taken into custody after which a search warrant was granted for his residence.
During the search of the home, deputies seized seven firearms, an unspecified amount of
methamphetamine and narcotics paraphernalia. As a result of the items found in the residence, the other homeowner, later identified as Nicole Woodruff, 38, of Elizabethtown, was arrested.
Joshua Woodruff was booked into the Bartholomew County Jail on the charges of: Intimidation with a deadly weapon, a Level 5 felony
Possession of methamphetamine, a Level 4 felony
Possession of paraphernalia, a Class C misdemeanor.
He is being held in the Bartholomew County Jail.
Nicole Woodruff was booked into the Bartholomew County Jail on the charges of: Possession of methamphetamine , a Level 4 Felony
Possession of paraphernalia, a Class C misdemeanor.
She has since been released.
An investigation into the incident is continuing.
