Michael Howie

CROWN POINT — A SWAT raid early Wednesday morning led to the arrest of a local homeowner on several drug-related charges.

Michael D. More, 63, was charged Thursday with felony unlawful possession of methamphetamine, possession of a syringe, maintaining a common nuisance and misdemeanor possession of paraphernalia.

According to the Crown Point Police Department, officers, along with the Northwest Regional SWAT Team, conducted the operation around 6 a.m. at More's house in the 600 block of W. 94th Court in Crown Point.

According to a probable cause affidavit filed Thursday in Lake Criminal Court, authorities raided the house and found 4.97 grams of methamphetamine in a bag in the living room, less than a gram of methamphetamine in a coffee mug and less than a gram on a bath

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