THEALKA, Ky. — A Johnson County sheriff’s deputy responding to a report of a possible break-in came away with an arrest for drug trafficking instead, after discovering more than a pound of meth.

The deputy was called to a home on Boyd Branch just after 10 p.m. Tuesday. As he approached the scene, he spotted a car matching the description of the vehicle at the break-in leaving, so he pulled it over.

While talking to the driver, identified as Aaron Welch, 29, of Van Lear, he spotted a gun beside the driver’s seat, so he asked Welch to step out of the vehicle.

A subsequent search turned up two large containers of meth, as well as a container of dab, a marijuana concentrate.

Welch was arrested and charged with trafficking and possession of meth and marijuana.