Muncie 4-year-old assaults cop during drug bust

MUNCIE – They are the kind of allegations that in many instances would lead to criminal charges — screaming at and kicking police officers in a bid to impede the arrest of an accused drug dealer.

But not in this case, because the person doing the screaming and kicking was a 4-year-old girl, trying to protect her mother.

Members of the Delaware County Sheriff's Office's narcotics unit on Monday arrested Amanda Lynn Summers, 25, after she allegedly sold two grams of heroin to an informant outside the CVS store at 201 N. Tillotson Ave.

Deputies — who had earlier decided no weapons would be displayed if Summers' young daughter was present — arrested the mother after a traffic stop along Oaklyn Avenue.

Corp. Lenny Popp wrote that he "felt the child kick me on the right leg, shouting at me to leave her mom alone."

Another deputy tried to calm the child, but she was "screaming as loud as she could," he added.

Child Protective Services officials were called to the scene, and the girl apparently was placed in the care of her grandmother.

Investigators said they found controlled prescription medications and methamphetamine in a plastic bag Summers had thrown from her car.

In a later interview, Summers allegedly said she started selling drugs "because she was tired of being broke." She said she had engaged in six drug transactions on Monday, all with her daughter present.

Popp wrote that he explained to Summers he was upset because "her daughter will probably never forget me taking her mom into custody, and her protecting (her mother) by kicking us like we were the bad guys."

Summers then "broke down and said she would never do it again," he wrote.

Summers — of the 1700 block of South High Street, was being held in the Delaware County jail on Tuesday under a $25,000 bond. She was preliminarily charged with dealing in a narcotic drug, dealing in meth, possession of a controlled substance and neglect of a dependent.

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