PLYMOUTH, WI (WHBL) - A Plymouth woman has been making headlines recently for selling dog food as heroin. That’s not the whole story, however, as criminal complaints filed by Sheboygan County prosecutors this week show that this alleged action was just the beginning of her criminal troubles for her interactions with illegal drugs.
In total, 22 year old Megan Meyer was charged with five offenses Wednesday and Thursday. They include two for imitation of a controlled substance, one for possession of drug paraphernalia, and two for bail jumping.
The complaints begin with a drug overdose incident in a City of Plymouth home December 13. While three people inside the home were arrested and charged, two of them claimed Meyer and Jerome Brost were with them when they purchased the heroin in Milwaukee earlier that day that led to the overdose.
That had Plymouth Police on alert to find the two and arrest them for probation warrants. It was just after midnight on December 15 when an officer found Brost entering a vehicle that did not have its headlights on. A traffic stop was conducted, and the officer found Brost in the vehicle, as well as Meyer in the driver's seat.
Both were taken into custody, but before leaving the scene Meyer reportedly asked an officer to get her cell phone, wallet and keys from the vehicle. When officers complied, they found an orange needle cap, cotton balls, two elastic tie-offs, and “binders" - a term for tightly folded pieces of paper to transport drugs in.
When interviewed, both Meyer and Brost reportedly admitted to have traveled to Milwaukee on December 14 to purchase heroin, but they were unable to use it because Brost spilled it.
Later on in the day of December 15, Meyer talked with Sheboygan County Sheriff deputies at the Sheboygan County Detention Center about a controlled buy that the county MEG unit conducted on November 18 with her as the seller. Details on that sale in a criminal complaint state a confidential informant got word that Meyer was willing to sell her a Percocet pill.
An investigator set up a controlled buy in Plymouth, where they received what was thought to be the Percocet and heroin. Meyer told the buyer she needed to get rid of the stuff before a probation agent visited her home. The drug unit analyzed the items, but they were determined not to be drugs at all.
When interviewed at the detention center, Meyer reportedly admitted that she sold fake items to the undercover agent. She used crushed dog food to pose as heroin, and an aspirin as the Percocet pill. When asked why she did this, she claimed it was to get back at the informant for stealing a car seat from her.
Meyer now faces over 19 years in prison if found guilty of all charges.