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Havre woman sentenced to 10 years on drug charges

Sentence calls for five years plus five suspended, placement in treatment facility

Kyrie Michelle Bachmeier of Havre, born in 1987, aka Kyrie Michelle Gideon, was sentenced in state District Court in Havre Monday to five years followed by five years suspended after she previously pleaded guilty to possession of drugs with intent to distribute.

After an investigation following a traffic stop of Gideon’s vehicle April 13, 2021, found large amounts of drugs and drug paraphernalia in the vehicle, Bachmeier was charged with two felony counts of criminal possession of drugs with intent to distribute, two felony counts of criminal possession of dangerous drugs, a felony count of use or possession of property subject to forfeiture and a misdemeanor count of criminal possession of drug paraphernalia.

A court document said a Tri-Agency Task Force agent found 12.3 grams of methamphetamine, 19.5 grams of liquid methamphetamine, 1.1 grams of heroin, 45 lorazepam tablets, one 15 mg, tablet of amphetamine and dextroamphetamine and one 30 mg. tablet of amphetamine and dextroamphetamine as well as a pipe, baggies and papers commonly used to package meth.

Under a plea agreement, Bachmeier pleaded guilty April 18 to one count of possession with the intent to distribute and one count of possession and to the possession of drug paraphernalia charge.

As per the plea agreement, presiding Judge Kaydee Snipes Ruiz dismissed the remaining counts.

Monday, Snipes Ruiz sentenced Bachmeier to five years for the possession with intent to distribute and five years suspended on the possession charge, to run after the five years for the possession with intent to distribute charge. She also sentenced Bachmeier to five days in jail with credit for five days served, ordered the forfeiture of $95 cash found during the investigation and recommended she be placed in chemical dependency treatment followed by prerelease.

According to court documents, an officer who had been waiting to turn onto First Street pulled over Bachmeier’s black Mazda Navajo after he noticed it had a defective headlight and the vehicle slowed to well-below the posted speed limit after he turned onto the street behind it. The document said the officer knew people engaged in criminal activities often are overly cautious and drive below the posted speed limit to avoid being noticed by law enforcement.

The document said the driver said he was on probation and was not supposed to be driving because his license was revoked. He said he was driving because the owner — Bachmeier — was afraid to drive in the snow.

The officer called the probation officer, who said the driver was a habitual traffic offender and gave the officer permission to search the vehicle he was driving.

The driver told the officer he thought the two women in the Mazda had methamphetamine and that whatever was found was not his.

After locating a meth pipe and some locked purses as well as an unlabeled prescription pill bottle with pills in it, the vehicle was seized, as well as Bachmeier’s cellphone, pending an application for a search warrant.

The document said Bachmeier admitted to the officer that meth was in the locked purse, and the officer then arrested her.

The officer then turned the investigation to Tri-Agency Drug Task Force, which searched the vehicle and found drugs, including what appeared to be meth in a purse which also had a wallet with Bachmeier’s driver’s license in it, and a large amount of drug paraphernalia which included some with a magazine page that had Bachmeier’s name and address as the subscriber printed on it.

The agent concluded from the evidence that both the crystal and liquid methamphetamine and heroin was being destributed, the document said.

 

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