Shoplifting call turns into drug arrest in Taylorsville

Danielle N. Hurley. Photo courtesy of Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department

Bartholomew County deputies are reporting that a shoplifting call at a Taylorsville convenience store turned into a drug arrest Thursday morning.

Deputies say that when they arrived at the store, they found a store clerk following a woman to her car. Video recordings in the store showed the woman allegedly taking items from the store without paying for them. When confronted by police and ordered to drop her bag, she tried to run away, according to police reports.

Police say that they allegedly found syringes hidden in a glasses case in the bag as well as a spoon with drug residue. Deputies say that the woman, 26-year-old Danielle N. Hurley, of Columbus, also admitted to taking heroin earlier in the day.

She was arrested on preliminary charges of possession of a legend drug injection devices, resisting law enforcement and conversion.