CAMBRIDGE – Investigators found large amounts of suspected methamphetamine and several firearms across multiple residences at what the Guernsey County Sheriff’s Office called a compound near the end of Kimbolton’s Main Street North.
There, one Kimbolton man, Charles R. Stone, 50, was arrested through a search warrant at around 2:30 a.m. May 20 by the sheriff’s office’s Special Response Team and Cambridge Police Department’s SWAT team, according to a release from sheriff’s office.
Stone has been charged with four felonies: aggravated drug trafficking, second degree; aggravated drug possession, second degree; aggravated drug possession, third degree; and having weapons while under disability, third degree.
The investigation was launched after months of suspected drug trafficking was believed to have been coming from the property, according to the release. The compound was a group of around seven campers encircling a tree, it added.
Stone is in custody of the Guernsey County Jail, the sheriff’s office said. A preliminary hearing has been set for May 29.
The investigation is ongoing.
This article originally appeared on The Daily Jeffersonian: Guernsey County raid uncovers suspected trafficking site in Kimbolton
Reporting by Shawn Digity, Cambridge Daily Jeffersonian / The Daily Jeffersonian
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