BEDFORD – On Tuesday, February 28, Bedford Police officers responded to a home in the 500 block of N Street after a report of a woman passed out in a black Nissan.
When police arrived they found 31-year-old Sherelle Lawson, of Bloomington, in the driver seat and a male, 44-year-old Anthony W. Hardy, of Bloomington, in the front passenger seat. Both were passed out. When an officer shined his flashlights in the vehicle both abruptly lifted their heads.
Police said Lawson appeared to be lethargic while answering questions, and her pupils were extremely dilated.
The officer noted in his report that Lawson kept her purse close to her on her lap while speaking with police. When asked if there were any illegal narcotics in the vehicle, police said she began to hold the top of the purse shut.Â
Both were then asked to exit the vehicle.
Canine Maximus conduct an exterior search of the vehicle and alerted officers to the presence of narcotics. Officers then began a probable cause search of the vehicle. Inside Lawson’s purse police found a plastic baggie containing 4 grams of crystal meth, a used syringe, a cellophane wrapper containing 30 Alprazolam pills and a metallic smoking device used to ingest marijuana.
As an officer was detaining Hardy he noticed that Hardy was clutching onto an item concealed within his jacket sleeve with one of his fingers. That item was a baggie containing crystal meth. As Hardy was being placed in handcuffs he jerked to the right and grabbed the baggie of meth and put it in his mouth and attempted to swallow it. He was taken to the ground and braced while an officer removed the baggie from his mouth. Hardy continued to forcibly resist and struggle and sustained an injury to his mouth causing him to bleed. An officer suffered a laceration to his right hand.
After the struggle, Hardy was transported to IU Health Bedford for medical treatment due to his injuries. The crystal meth in the baggie that Hardy attempted to swallow weighed approximately 5.0 grams including packaging.
 While finishing a search of the vehicle, officers located several other syringes and two glass smoking devices containing a burnt residue that field tested positive for marijuana. Officers later located two more Alprazolam pills within Hardy’s property that was retrieved from his pockets, as well as two additional syringes. Â
Additionally, during the search officers located several different forms of identification from various different people, including state identification cards, social security cards, birth certificates, and a passport.
Lawson and Hardy were transported to jail on charges of possession of meth, possession of a schedule II controlled substance, possession of marijuana, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Hardy is also facing a charge of resisting arrest.
