Knox Man Arrested on Heroin Charges

 
 
A Knox man was arrested on heroin charges Saturday night.

Knox police officers were called to IU Health Starke Hospital in Knox on a report of a suspicious vehicle. Officers did not locate the vehicle in question in the hospital’s parking lot, but it was spotted in the Five Star parking lot.

Police reportedly found 15 individually packaged bags of heroin inside the vehicle.

Matthew Bradley, 27, was arrested on preliminary charges of Dealing in Heroin, a Class B felony; Possession of Heroin, a Class D felony and Possession of a Syringe, a Class A misdemeanor. He was booked into the Starke County Jail.

The case remains under investigation.