A deal between Warsaw Police Department and a confidential informant resulted in the arrest of Hailey Templeton and an arrest warrant issued for Kacynda Northrup.
According to the Kosciusko County Jail, Templeton was arrested at 3:49 a.m. today.
On Sept. 24, WPD officer Paul Heaton met with the informant to purchase half a gram of heroin from Northrup for $100. The informant and the officer recorded a call to Northrup to buy the heroin at a store in Kosciusko County. Later, Northrup advised to meet the informant at a different store.
Warsaw police gave the informant an audio recorder and $100 before they went to the second store. The informant then got in Northrup’s car in the store parking lot. Heaton advised he heard Northrup say they would have to wait for her cousin, Templeton, who was allegedly stealing from the store.
When Templeton, 32, of 202 Argonne Road, Warsaw, got in the car, they measured the heroin. Templeton apparently went into the store to get scissors to open the container of heroin. The informant then paid for the heroin with the $100 from Heaton. According to the probable cause affidavit provided by the Kosciusko County Prosecutor’s Office, the officer field-tested the brown, powdery substance. It tested positively as less than 1 gram of heroin.
Templeton was arrested for dealing a narcotic drug and possession of precursor and booked into Kosciusko County Jail on a $62,750 bond.
There is a warrant in Kosciusko County for Northrup’s arrest.
(Story By The Times Union)
