A 39-year-old Columbus man who was pulled semiconscious from a submerged truck in the East Fork White River on Friday by hunters has been released from Columbus Regional Health and is being held without bond in the Bartholomew County Jail.

Jeremy Sweet and his 2-year-old daughter, Emma, were reported missing Thanksgiving Day by family members. Duck hunters saw the submerged truck and pulled Sweet to the shoreline, and a search ensued for the missing toddler. Her body was found Sunday about 2.5 miles downstream from the truck, caught in a debris-filled area in the river.

Investigators said a firefighter walking the riverbank Sunday saw Emma in the water and called for divers and a boat. Sonar was used to map the area where the girl was found before her body was recovered.

Sweet is on a 72-hour hold on a court order and also is being held on a preliminary charge of possession of a syringe, according to the Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department. The court order expires at midnight Thursday.

A forensic autopsy for Emma Sweet was conducted Monday afternoon at Columbus Regional, but results are not expected to be released for four to six weeks, the Bartholomew County Coroner’s Office said.

Sweet gave three different versions of what happened to Emma, including dropping her off at “Casey’s,” possibly a reference to a convenience store nearby on Gladstone Avenue, and then a version that he had placed Emma on the hood of the truck because she was wet and had taken her coat off before she was swept away in the current, deputies said.

On Saturday, Sweet told investigators Emma was in the truck with him when it went into the water, Sheriff Matt Myers said. Sweet said he placed her on the hood of the truck and then had fallen asleep, and when he woke up, she wasn’t there, according to investigators.

CRH officials told investigators a syringe was found on Sweet when he was taken to the hospital.

Court records indicate Sweet has an extensive criminal record in Bartholomew County involving possession and dealing methamphetamine, leaving the scene of an accident, driving under the influence of controlled substances and running drug labs, including one in a local residence and another that resulted in the evacuation of a local hotel.

Court records show he was currently out on bond for charges of methamphetamine possession and unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon as part of Operation Columbus Day, one of the largest drug sweeps in city history.

In September, Sweet was found guilty of leaving the scene of an accident, a Class B misdemeanor, stemming from an incident this past February along County Road 450N in which he lost control of his vehicle, hit a mailbox and drove through a fence, according to court records.

Officers later pulled Sweet over and observed damage to the front of the black Ford F-150 that he was driving and found approximately 50 feet of wire from an electric fence stuck to the vehicle, according to a probable cause affidavit.

Sweet told officers he had been working all night and was exhausted and thought he could report the accident when he got home. Sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 13.

In 2016, Sweet pleaded guilty to dealing methamphetamine, a Level 5 felony, after local law enforcement found methamphetamine, several firearms, ammunition, seven spoons of lithium abberies, sudafed, iodized salt and a propane tank with a blueish-green tint consistent with a key ingredient in meth in a local home, according to a probable cause affidavit.

Sweet told a detective at the scene he had been cooking methamphetamine for about a month to pay his bills. The Indiana Department of Child Services also was involved with the investigation.

Sweet was sentenced to four and a half years in prison, all suspended, and four and a half years probation; however, he later served part of the prison sentence after admitting he had violated the terms of his probation.

In 2007, Sweet pleaded guilty to a felony illegal drug lab charge after Columbus police found him and three others inside a clandestine meth lab inside a room at Knights Inn in Columbus.

The responding officers said there was an overwhelming odor of chemical solvent inside the hotel room that was so strong that it was unsafe to be there, prompting police to evacuate people from nearby rooms, according to a probable cause affidavit.

Police later found multiple jars with a large amount of smoke coming from the top as well as liquid fire, paint thinner and a pill grinder in the bathtub.

Sweet was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison with three years suspended in that case.

In 2006, Sweet was found guilty of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of a controlled substance after Columbus police found him passed out in a vehicle with the engine running at the Circle K at 262 N. Gladstone Ave., according to court records.

A Columbus police officer said in a probable cause affidavit that Sweet was wearing soiled or disorderly clothing and had glassy eyes, slurred speech and unstable balance and was sweating profusely. Sweet later tested positive for amphetamines, benzodiazepine and cocaine at CRH.

Sweet was sentence to a suspended one-year jail sentence, one year of probation, 90-day license suspension, among other penalties.