Police, Sheriff Cooperate In Undercover Operation Against Methamphetamine and Firearms Deal

FALLS CITY – A 31-year-old Hiawatha, Kan., man faces drug and weapons charges after an undercover operation in Falls City conducted jointly by the Richardson County Sheriff’s Office and Falls City Police Department.

At 1:47 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 4, deputies and police conducted a controlled buy of methamphetamine and firearms.

A sheriff’s office press release says Cody Rhyne fled arrest in a 2006 Cadillac. The pursuit ended south of highways 8 and 105, where Rhyne crashed.

He then fled a quarter mile on foot through a cornfield before he was apprehended.

During an inventory of the suspect’s vehicle, a 9mm hand gun was located, about 11 ounces of meth and other controlled substances estimated to have a street value of $25,000. Also seized was $2,300 in cash.

Rhyne is suspected of:

 

• Possession of a deadly weapon by a prohibited person x 2
• Possession of money while violating drug statute
• Possession of Marijuana
• Possession of drug paraphernalia
• Possession with intent to deliver
• Deliver exceptional hazardous drug within 1000 ft of a school
• Possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony x2
• No Drug tax stamp
• Possession of a Legend Drug x3
• Possession of a controlled substance
• No operator’s license
• Carry a concealed weapon
• Felony-operate motor vehicle to avoid arrest