(BEDFORD) – A jury of 12 men and women and three alternates have been seated in the jury trial in Lawrence County Superior Court I.
The jury was seated around 10:40 a.m. They were then dismissed for the day and will begin hearing testimony Wednesday morning.
Earlier:
Jury selection continues this morning in Lawrence County Superior Court I.
Judge John Plummer III is presiding over the trial of 43-year-old Scott Afanador, of Bloomington. Afanador is facing charges of dealing meth over 10 grams, possession of meth over 28 grams, and unlawful possession of a syringe.
Sam Arp. is prosecuting the case for the State. Denise Turner and Public Defender Bruce Andis are representing Afanador .
The trial is scheduled to conclude on Friday and can be viewed at this link.
Afanador was arrested in November 2019 along with three other people when a Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department deputy stopped the driver of an SUV on State Road 37 at the Sinclair service station for a traffic violation.
When the deputy approached the SUV he could detect the odor of raw marijuana coming from the interior of the vehicle, which led to a search of the SUV.
During that search, officers found a crystal substance that tested positive for meth, a hand-rolled marijuana cigarette, 110 grams of meth, syringes, and fentanyl test kits.
Police arrested Afanador along with three other people in the vehicle. This included 40-year-old Timothy Whaley, of Bedford; 28-year-old Tiffany Purtlebaugh, of Bloomington; and 36-year-old Christopher Lynch, of Vincennes.
Afanador says the drugs were not his but someone else’s in the vehicle.
