MARION COUNTY — A 48-year-old Carlyle man was formally charged Monday in Marion County Court with felony delivery of methamphetamine after Centralia police reportedly found him in possession of a large amount of meth.

According to police, Robert Wells was arrested Friday after a caller reported a suspicious person walking around and looking in the windows of a home in the 800 block of South Hickory in Centralia.

When officers arrived they found a man later identified as Wells carrying a backpack and acting nervous. He reportedly asked officers if they wanted to search his backpack and opened it so officers could look inside. A baggie containing a white powdery substance was allegedly in plain view and Wells was taken into custody.

As officers searched Wells and his backpack, they reportedly found four individual packages containing a substance that field tested in all four bags as meth, along with $2,286 cash, which were all seized as evidence. The total weight of all four bags of suspected meth was 30.7 grams.

Wells was formally charged Monday with Class X felony delivery of between 15 and 100 grams of meth and Class 1 felony possession of between 15 and 100 grams of meth.

Bond remains to be set.