MUNCIE, Ind. – For the third time in less than two years, a Muncie woman was arrested Saturday after she allegedly overdosed on drugs while her three children were in her care.

Amanda Raven Smith, 37, remained in the Delaware County jail on Monday, preliminarily charged with neglect of a dependent.

Authorities were called to her home, in the 600 block of North Elm Street, shortly after 5:30 p.m. Saturday after one of Smith’s children went to a neighbor’s home to report his mother was “not waking up.”

The neighbor then entered the home, which was filling with smoke, and found food burning on the stove. That woman turned off the stove burner and removed Smith’s three-year-old son from the residence.

Authorities found an unconscious Smith in a bedroom and administered Narcan, a medication used to counteract symptoms of opioid overdoses.

She was taken to IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital before later being transferred to the Delaware County jail.

While at the hospital, Smith reportedly begged an officer not to arrest her, maintaining she had only consumed her prescription medication and smoked marijuana before losing consciousness.

Department of Child Services officials were called to the scene to make arrangements for Smith's children to stay elsewhere.

City police also resuscitated Smith with Narcan on Oct. 8, 2018, after one of her children called 911 to report she was not breathing.

She also allegedly overdosed on heroin in the Elm Street house in January 2018, also while her three youngsters were present.

Smith last January pleaded guilty to a neglect-of-a-dependent charge stemming from one of the 2018 overdoses, and was placed on probation for two years.

Under the terms of a plea agreement, nine other related charges – including five counts of neglect of a dependent – were dismissed.

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