Police: Man arrested after trading iPhone for heroin

Douglas Walker | The Star Press

WINCHESTER, Ind. – A Hartford City man’s already considerable legal problems have now extended to Randolph County.

John Tanner Hendricks, 25, was arrested Thursday by Union City police after they determined a “bulged area around his left sock” was caused by a plastic bag that contained than 11 grams of heroin.

Hendricks reported he had traded an iPhone “for the heroin hidden in his sock,” an officer wrote, although he maintained he believed he had been given only three grams of the drug.

Hendricks and a 23-year-old rural Muncie woman he was found with allegedly told the officers they had most recently ingested heroin about 12 hours earlier.

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The pair came into contact with authorities Thursday afternoon after a caller told dispatchers they saw two people “acting suspicious” in the 300 block of South Columbia Street.

Hendricks was arrested on preliminary charges of possession of a narcotic drug, maintaining a common nuisance and possession of paraphernalia. Prosecutor David Daly’s office on Friday was granted until Tuesday to file formal charges in the case.

The Hartford City man was being held in the Randolph County jail under a $12,000 bond.

Tanner already faced nine charges, all filed this year, in a pair of pending Delaware Circuit Court 1 cases – three counts of aiding, inducing or causing burglary, along with possession of a narcotic drug, meth, marijuana and paraphernalia, resisting law enforcement and theft.

Douglas Walker is a news reporter at The Star Press. Contact him at 765-213-5851 or at dwalker@muncie.gannett.com.