MENTONE – A Mentone sobriety checkpoint conducted Friday night netted several arrests including one individual with a $125,000 bond.
Officers from throughout Kosciusko County converged on Mentone Friday evening to conduct another of several summertime sobriety checkpoints.
The sobriety checkpoint was in the parking lot of the Lake City Bank of Mentone.
Demario Maurice Loston, 35, Warsaw, was preliminarily arrested on outstanding warrants issued by the Kosciusko County Prosecutor’s Office. Loston’s original charges were felony domestic battery, battery with bodily injury, residential entry and failure to appear.
Officers also arrested a Rochester man on drug charges after allegedly finding 50 grams of marijuana during the checkpoint. Cyrus Benjamin Withers, 24, Rochester, was arrested and preliminarily charged with felony possession of marijuana and possession of a controlled substance (prescription medication). Withers was being held on a $2,000 bond by the Kosciusko County Prosecutor’s Office.
Officers documented 146 vehicles entering into the sobriety checkpoint that was operated from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.
The sobriety checkpoint was conducted by officers from the Kosciusko County Traffic Safety Partnership that included the following agencies: Warsaw Police Department, Winona Lake Police Department, North Webster Police Department, Syracuse Police Department, Milford Police Department, Mentone Police Department, Claypool Police Department, Silver Lake Police Department and the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department.
