Home detention check leads to drug-dealing charges

Shane M. Medaris. Photo courtesy of Columbus Police Department.

Columbus police say that a man on home detention is now facing charges of drug dealing.

29-year-old Shane Medaris was arrested after community corrections officers and police checked on him at about 8:25 p.m. last night at his home in in the 3200 block of Washington Street.

Lt. Matt Harris, spokesman for the police department, says the community corrections officers were checking the home when they found what appeared to be about sevenĀ grams of heroin. Columbus police were called in and while searching Medaris after he was taken into custody, they allegedly found three syringes, methamphetamine and more than $3,700 dollars in cash in his pants pockets.

He is now facing preliminary charges of dealing heroin and possessing heroin, meth and the syringes.