Kelli Storckman, Wabash County State’s Attorney, reports that on November 12, 2024, Christopher T. Lawson, a 39-year-old Evansville, Indiana man, was sentenced to 15 years in the Department of Corrections, to be followed by 12 months of mandatory supervised release by the Honorable Circuit Judge William C. Hudson in Wabash County Circuit Court.

State’s Attorney Storckman advises that the Defendant was arrested on May 29, 2024, following a MCPD traffic stop of Lawson.  Inside the vehicle of Lawson was located 60.5 grams of methamphetamine. The defendant was sentenced to the Department of Corrections on a charge of Possession of Methamphetamine, a Class 1 Felony.