INDIANAPOLIS – A shots fired investigation in Indianapolis led to a bust involving drugs and more than two dozen guns in Hendricks county.
Detectives were investigating an individual who was suspected in being involved with several shots fired incidents. The IMPD Southwest District Violent Crimes Task Force and Violence Reduction Team identified the suspect as 21-year-old Dallas Dodd.
Police staked out a Hendricks County home where Dodd was believed to be staying. On April 15, police saw him leave the residence on Primrose Lane with a gun in his pocket. Officers stopped the vehicle at Rockville Road and I-465. Dodd and another man, 21-year-old Brayden Lowe, were in possession of three loaded guns along with cocaine and marijuana, police said.
Detectives were then granted a search warrant for the Primrose Lane address. There, officers seized 25 additional firearms and various amounts of fentanyl, cocaine, mushrooms, methamphetamine and marijuana. They also recovered $1,250 in cash.
"This wasn't one gun or two guns. This was a large quantity of guns. So that's an amazing task to remove those guns from our streets," said IMPD Officer Tommy Thompson.
Dodd was arrested on various firearms and narcotics charges, while Lowe faced preliminary charges related to drug offenses.
"The work that our Southwest unit did to take these firearms off the streets makes all of central Indiana safer," said Thompson.
While the two suspects were arrested following the traffic stop, Dodd still has an active arrest warrant after he posted a small bond of $150 in Marion County the day before felony charges were formally filed in Hendricks County.
"It's a clear cut example of the revolving door," said Indy FOP President Rick Snyder. "If we would have held this offender while they completed the paper work, they could have come and picked up the offender."
While he praised officers for the bust, Snyder said because the jail computer systems don't communicate across county lines, officers and the public have been put in danger.
"Now you have a violent offender whose been arrested for possession of a firearm and dealing drugs who is out on the run and you have officers that will be sent to find that offender," said Snyder.
Lowe was re-arrested Thursday on the Hendricks County case. He was released on bond on Friday, according to jail records.
Lowe is charged with possession of a narcotic drug, possession of methamphetamine, possession of a controlled substance, dealing in marijuana and possession of marijuana, according to court records.
Dodd faces the same charges as Lowe, in addition to a pair of gun charges: unlawful carrying of a handgun and unlawful possession of a firearm by a domestic batterer.
Anyone with information on Dodd’s whereabouts should call 911 or submit an anonymous tip through Crime Stoppers at 317-262-TIPS (8477).