Four arrested on drug-related charges

TAYLORSVILLE — Four Brown County residents were arrested on multiple drug-related charges after Bartholomew County sheriff’s deputies were called to a hotel room on U.S. 31 North.

Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Deputy Grant Carlson was sent on the welfare check at 11:05 p.m. Jan. 17. Deputy Dustin Newland and Carlson reported finding a man and also a woman holding a bag of narcotics inside a hotel room, deputies said.

After receiving a search warrant, deputies reported finding multiple drug-related items inside the room, including about 6 grams of heroin, approximately 3 grams of methamphetamine and syringes.

Room renters, Darrell Hayworth, 59, and Beth Hayworth, 59, both of North Oak Ridge Road, were taken to the Bartholomew County Jail on preliminary charges of possession of heroin, possession of methamphetamine, possession of syringes, maintaining a common nuisance and possession of a controlled substance, deputies said.

Darrell Hayworth was being held in jail in lieu of $142,500 bond, jail officials said. Beth Hayworth was being held in jail in lieu of $127,500 bond, jail officials said.

Darrell Hayworth Jr., 36, of the same address of his parents, and Kelsey Wootton, 26, of Bear Creek Road, were arrested on a preliminary charge of visiting a common nuisance, deputies said. Both were released from the Bartholomew County Jail with bond set at $3,500 each, jail officials said.