Muncie woman charged after fellow inmates at Delaware County jail overdose

MUNCIE, Ind. — A Muncie woman is accused of smuggling heroin into the Delaware County jail, leading to overdoses for two fellow inmates.

Ashley Tate Shaw, 30, was preliminarily charged this week with possession of a narcotic drug and trafficking with an inmate.

A report by Delaware County sheriff's deputies indicated two women held in the jail experienced overdoses Monday. Both were revived with the use of Narcan, a medication used to reverse the effects of opioid ingestion, and were later treated at IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital.

Investigators said after Shaw was arrested Sunday — on allegations she had shoplifted at Muncie's Target store and also illegally possessed Xanax — she had heroin hidden in a body cavity, and later distributed the drug to "multiple inmates... free of charge."

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After the first inmate overdosed on Monday, Shaw was searched and a bag containing six grams of heroin was recovered.

Shaw continued to be held in the Delaware County jail on Wednesday under a $17,500 bond.

In June, Mya Lynn Moody, a 33-year-old Muncie woman convicted of supplying a fellow inmate at the jail with the fentanyl leading to a fatal overdose, was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

Douglas Walker is a news reporter at The Star Press. Contact him at 765-213-5851 or at dwalker@muncie.gannett.com.