Bloomington woman arrested on drug charges

A Bloomington woman waiting in the Monroe County Prosecutor’s Office was arrested on drug charges Wednesday after she allegedly told an investigator there she had recently smoked methamphetamine.

The woman, later identified as Samantha Lindsey, 26, reportedly appeared “out of it” to the investigator and kept falling asleep in the lobby, Sgt. Jeff Canada of the Bloomington Police Department said.

When the investigator asked her if she had been drinking, Lindsey allegedly said she had not, but that she had smoked meth. The investigator called the police.

Officers arrived at the Prosecutor’s Office and determined she was still high, Canada said. While she was being arrested, Lindsey asked the police to go tell the manager of the Country Hearth Inn, where she was staying, that the arrest would prevent her from paying her rent and collecting her belongings.

Officers went to the inn and talked to the manager, who reportedly told them Lindsey hadn’t been paying her bills anyway. He said he would box her things up for her but asked the officers to accompany him to her room in case other people were squatting there.

When the manager opened the door, the officers saw a black case containing syringes, a mirror covered in white powder and some loose pills, Canada said.
Officers could see a burnt spoon on the bed. On the floor, they could see a bag containing a white substance that appeared to be meth. 

The police obtained a search warrant for the room and collected six syringes, the mirror, the spoon, the pills, a glass pipe and the bag found on the floor. Officers confirmed the substance in the bag was meth.

Lindsey faces preliminary charges of public intoxication, unlawful possession of a syringe and possession of meth, a class B felony, as she was within 1,000 feet of a public park.

— Jake New