A search for illegal drugs earlier this week took longer than law enforcement officials expected, Iola Police Chief Jared Warner said.
The search, as reported in Thursday’s Register, began Monday at Humboldt High School, followed by searches at Iola’s high school and middle school.
Searches of 14 cars at HHS yielded discovery of a small amount of what is suspected as marijuana in one of the vehicles.
No illegal drugs were found at either Iola campus.
As officers were wrapping up their searches, they received a call from Allen Community College employees referring to drugs and a pistol found in a room search.
After officers obtained a search warrant, they found a pistol and what they described as illegal drugs. The pistol had been reported as stolen in Fayetteville, Ark.
In a search of vehicles associated with the room, one vehicle was found to have additional drugs and other drug-related items.
Ishine McFarlane, 18, Fayetteville, was arrested and booked into Allen County Jail on allegations of distributing marijuana, possessing drug paraphernalia, possessing a stolen firearm, possessing a firearm by a substance abuser and possessing other illegal opiates.
In addition, officers seized $620 in cash and a 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Based on a tip, officers then searched three additional vehicles at Iola Walmart, where K-9 units “hit” on all three vehicles, but no measurable amount of illegal drugs was found, Warner said.
McFarlane was listed as a member of the Allen Community College basketball team. Red Devil head coach Andy Shaw told the Register Thursday that McFarlane had been dismissed from the team.
Assisting IPD was the Allen County Sheriff’s Department and K-9 units from Bourbon, Montgomery and Wilson counties and the Chanute and Neodesha police departments.
