Prison Mental Health Worker Busted For Drug Trafficking – Corrections Officer Husband Stabbed Back in 2018
A former mental health worker at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility is behind bars charged with drug trafficking for her part in a scheme to smuggle drugs into inmates at the prison where both she and her corrections officer husband were employed.
Shelly Mathias was booked into the Scioto County Jail on charges of aggravated drug trafficking Friday. The Scioto County Grand Jury indicted the 43-year-old woman back in September. The prosecutor claimed that while working as an employee of the Ohio Mental Health and Addictions Services at the prison, she conspired with two inmates to bring drugs into the facility.
Convicted drug traffickers Eion Dangerfield and William Burton were named as her co-conspirators in the indictment. The indictment says officials recorded Mathias communicating with Dangerfield and Burton about the scheme to smuggle large quantities of dangerous illegal substances, including fentanyl, into the prison. According to the indictment, law enforcement has recorded evidence of the scheme starting in late October 2021, and Mathias attempted to bring the drugs into the facility on December 1, 2021.
Back in 2018, her husband, Corrections Officer Matthew Mathias was stabbed 32 times in an attack by inmates Casey Pigge and Greg Reinke. Shelly Mathias sat tearfully by her husband during the inmates’ trials in 2019.
But, in what seems to be a shocking turn of events, prosecutors allege that just two years after the trial, she was working with inmates to facilitate drug smuggling into the facility.
As well as working at SOCF, her state license shows she worked at a local rehab center for drug abuse.
Mathias is currently held on a $150,000 bond.