BLOOMINGTON— A Bloomington woman who police say sold laced heroin to a man who fatally overdosed is facing charges.
Makayla Rose Matlock, 24, was charged Friday with dealing a controlled substance resulting in death, a Level 1 felony, and dealing a narcotic drug, a Level 5 felony.
Bloomington Police officers responded to a call of a possible overdose at a home on Nancy Street just after 4:00 a.m. on July 2.
When police arrived, they found a man dead near a small amount of a powder substance – heroin.
The grandmother told police he had arrived home around 10 p.m. the night before, and she found him unresponsive.
On August 6, the Monroe County Coroner ruled the man’s death an accident due to “mixed drug toxicity” involving xylazine and fentanyl.
Police later searched the man’s phone and found conversations on Facebook Messenger between Matlock and the man. The messages confirmed a drug sale took place between Matlock and the male through Cash App. The drug was purchased just hours before the male overdosed.
During police interviews, Matlock admitted to selling the male 0.1 grams of “mostly cut” heroin to the man. She told police days after the drug deal and learning that the man had died, she deleted all the messages because she “was in fear of someone or law enforcement finding the messages.”
Matlock will appear today at 1:00 p.m. in Monroe Circuit Court 9 for her initial court appearance. She is also facing other drug-related charges from a 2023 case.
Monday, according to online court records. She is already facing separate drug-related and theft charges in a 2023 case.
