Arlington police have charged a 46-year-old East Arlington man with trafficking in methamphetamine.

 Joseph Theodore Ryan was arrested about 9:51 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12, after town officers and members of the Suburban Middlesex County Drug Task Force executed a search warrant at an apartment on Windsor Street.

Inside the apartment, police located and seized multiple plastic baggies and containers of methamphetamine, multiple digital scales, a bag of blue pills, a bag of yellow pills, drug packaging materials and more than $4,000 in U.S. currency, a police news release from Guilfoil Public Relations said.

Ryan was taken into custody without incident. He was scheduled to arraigned later the same day afternoon at Cambridge District Court.

This news announcement was published Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019.