RILEY COUNTY –Law enforcement authorities in Riley County are investigating a suspect on drug charges.

On Tuesday, after a three-month investigation, detectives with the Riley County Police Department Special Investigations Unit in conjunction with the Junction City/Geary County Drug Operations Group arrested Randall Joseph Simonds, 33, Manhattan, at a location in Junction City.

Simonds was arrested and booked into the Riley County Jail on two offenses of Distribution of Methamphetamine, one offense of Distribution of Methamphetamine within 1000 feet of a School, three offenses of the Unlawful use of a Telecommunication Device, and one offense of felony flee and elude.

Simonds is confided at the Riley County jail on a bond of $26,000.00.

He has a previous conviction in Shawnee County for Criminal Damage to Property in 2012, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections.