A Crothersville woman was arrested last Wednesday for multiple counts of trafficking banned substances with an inmate and sexual misconduct with an inmate, according to Jackson County Sheriff Rick Meyer.
Ann Marie Sebastian, 54, of Marshall Drive, who was an employee working for a kitchen contractor at the jail, faces four felony charges including three counts of trafficking with an inmate and sexual misconduct with an inmate.
According to Meyer, the department received a tip of a contracted kitchen employee possibly trafficking with inmate.
According to the probable cause affidavit, deputies set up video surveillance in the kitchen walk-in cooler where the believed trafficking was occurring. According to the court document, video footage showed Sebastian bringing nicotine pouches into the jail to pass on to inmates.
The probable cause indicates that Sebastian had a semi-intimate relationship with Jordan Michael Hensley, 39, of Scottsburg who was sentenced Jan. 13, 2025 to eight years on drug charges. It was with Hensley and another inmate Dawson Gravett that she was charged with trafficking.
According to the probable cause, Sebastian brought nicotine patches to the jail kitchen walk-in cooler and gave them to Gravett to give to Hensley, according to the court document.
When jail officials confronted Sebastian, she eventually, reluctantly acknowledged bringing nicotine and suboxone (a drug used to treat opioid addiction) into the jail at Hensley’s request beginning early in January.
According to detectives, a former inmate now living in Indianapolis would mail the drug to Sebastian’s late father’s home in Seymour where she would pick up drugs and bring into the county jail, the court document read.
Sebastian told detectives that she and Hensley had gone into the staff restroom in the kitchen to clean it. Under interrogation, when detectives asked if she and Hensley had a sexual relationship, Sebastian stated “Maybe, yeah”.
Asked again about the nature of the sexual contact with the inmate, Sebastian said it was consensual and nothing was forced, According to the court document Sebastian went into detail about kissing and fondling and said she had begun performing oral sex when they were interrupted by jail personnel who came into the kitchen, she told detectives in the probable cause affidavit.
Sebastian was booked into jail at 2:31 p.m. Jan. 29 and was released at 11:08 a.m. Jan. 31 after posting a $2,005 bond.