Alleged drug dealer now charged with allegedly intimidating a witness
Five weeks after being arrested on a possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance charge and released on $75,000 bail, Justin Eugene Myers told another person that he wanted to harm a witness involved in the drug case by tying him up and “burning down his house,” it was alleged in an affidavit filed by a detective assigned to the county’s Narcotics Enforcement Unit.
Myers, 34, of 852 Memorial Ave., allegedly made the remark on July 1, and law enforcement soon learned of it, the court document stated The narcotics unit filed the single felony drug charge on May 16 following an incident four days earlier in the city.
Myers has waived his preliminary hearing in this case. Myers was arraigned before District Judge Denise Dieter on a felony charge of intimidation of a witness as well as terroristic threats, a misdemeanor. He remains locked up in the county prison in lieu of $100,000 bail after waiving his preliminary hearing last week on this pair of new charges.