Kevin Joseph Myers, 31, of Barnhart has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to felony charges of drug trafficking, drug possession and first-degree tampering, court records show.
Jefferson County Div. 5 Circuit Judge Victor Melenbrink on Sept. 6 sentenced Myers to 15 years in prison for drug trafficking, seven years in prison each for four charges of possession of a controlled substance and seven years for first-degree tampering. Myers also was sentenced to 10 days in jail for each of the misdemeanor charges including three counts of possession of drug paraphernalia, two counts of fourth-degree assault and driving while intoxicated, according to court documents.
Myers will serve the prison sentences concurrently, or at the same time, and he was credited with time served for each of the 10-day jail sentences. He had pleaded guilty to the six felony charges and six misdemeanor charges on June 18, court records said.
Jefferson County assistant prosecuting attorney Lindsay Whalen prosecuted the cases.
Myers was arrested on three separate occasions between May through July 2022. He was arrested twice in House Springs and once in Festus, court papers show.
According to the probable-cause statement, Myers was arrested by a Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office deputy on May 15, 2022, after he was seen sleeping in a vehicle outside a home on Verdant Drive in House Springs. Myers was speaking with emergency medical service personnel when the deputy arrived, and Myers had a syringe and marijuana cigarette on his lap.
Myers told the deputy he is not diabetic, and that he did not use drugs. When the deputy searched Myers, he found a large amount of methamphetamine in Myers’s pocket with some of the meth wrapped in small bags, the report said.
The deputy also discovered the vehicle Myers was in had been reported stolen by the St. Charles Police, according to the report.
Myers was arrested again on May 26, 2022, after he was involved in a disturbance outside a home on Menkhus Avenue in Festus. He had been sleeping in a vehicle outside the home after a woman who lived there let him spend the night in the vehicle after picking him up from Twin City Laundry the night before, the case’s probable-cause statement said.
Myers called 911, claiming he was being attacked by a group of juveniles who were throwing his possessions from the vehicle to the ground. However, a man who lived at the home said Myers had assaulted a woman at the house, and the man had hit Myers twice because he believed Myers was going to assault a young man and the woman, the report said.
The man said he punched Myers once and hit him with an aluminum pole to stop Myers from charging at the young man and woman. Myers was walking away from the home when a Festus Police officer arrived, according to the report.
Myers told the officer that he was in possession of items that the officer missed when he patted him down. The officer found a baggie with a crystal-like substance and a glass smoking pipe in the waist band of Myers’s underwear, the report said.
A Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper arrested Myers on July 14, 2022, near the intersection of West Four Ridge Road and Hwy. 21 in House Springs. Myers was found slumped behind the wheel of a running vehicle that was partially blocking the road, the case’s probable-cause statement said.
The trooper found meth, fentanyl, ecstasy, marijuana and drug paraphernalia in the vehicle, the report said.
Myers is still facing felony charges in St. Charles County, court records show.
On March 10, 2022, he was arrested for unlawful possession of a firearm, a class D felony punishable by up to seven years in prison; driving in a careless and imprudent manner, a class A misdemeanor that carries a penalty of up to one year in jail and a fine of up to $2,000; and DWI, a class B misdemeanor that is punishable by up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000, according to court documents.
On May 30, 2022, Myers was arrested by O’Fallon Police and charged with two counts of possession of a control substance, which are class D felonies punishable by up to seven years in prison, court records show.
Court records show Myers is a repeat offender.
In August 2012, Myers pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery, first-degree burglary and two counts of armed criminal action in St. Louis County. In October 2012, he also pleaded guilty to felony stealing in St. Louis County, according to court documents.
Myers was sentenced to a total of 10 years in prison, court records said.