At the request of Ambulance Director Ryan Sell, Allen County detective Anthony Maness will investigate a drug issue within the department.
“Sell came to my office on Monday and asked that we look into a discrepancy,” Sheriff Bryan Murphy said. “He said one of his staff twice had reported problems with drugs that had expired and were supposed to be safely locked away.” The sheriff did not elaborate beyond that, except to say the drug mentioned was schedule 4 on the 1-5 designation, with such drugs as morphine and high-level opiates being schedule 1.
Murphy said he notified Iola Chief of Police Jared Warner of the investigation, with the assumption that Sell came to him rather than the Iola department because the ambulance service is operated by Iola.
