NEW DETAILS: Man arrested during Kettering SWAT call indicted on weapons, drug charges

Matthew Jennings Fowler

Credit: Kettering Jail

Credit: Kettering Jail

Matthew Jennings Fowler

A man arrested after Kettering Regional SWAT served a search warrant at an apartment earlier this month was indicted Friday on weapons and drug charges.

Matthew J. Fowler, 41, of Kettering, is scheduled to be arraigned March 3 in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court for four counts of having weapons while under disability for prior offenses of violence and drug convictions; and two misdemeanor counts of drug paraphernalia and obstructing official business.

Police obtained a search warrant for an apartment in the 1900 block of Hazel Avenue in Kettering after a detective learned drugs were being sold at the apartment. While surveilling the apartment, investigators noted foot and vehicle traffic at the apartment and that people were staying for a short amount of time, according to court documents.

“A vehicle was stopped leaving the suspect address,” court records read. “The driver was in possession of marijuana and admitted to buying it from the suspect location.”

SWAT on Feb. 9 responded to serve the warrant.

“The reason SWAT was called was there was a report of weapons in the home,” Kettering police officer Joe Ferrell said earlier this month.

Within 45 minutes to an hour, the people inside the apartment came outside, he said.

Detectives found methamphetamine, psilocybin mushrooms, paraphernalia, a revolver, a stolen pistol and ammunition inside the apartment, according to court documents.

Fowler’s bond was set at $25,000 on Monday in Kettering Municipal Court. He posted bond Tuesday and is no longer in custody, according to the court docket.

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