OC Man, Woman Charged With Giving Pup Fentanyl Have Prior Offenses

IRVINE, CA — A man and woman suspected of animal cruelty inconnection with a puppy ingesting a narcotic in Irvine have a criminal history of drug-related offenses, according to Orange County court records.

Caleb Aaron Eisman, 29, of San Juan Capistrano, who also goes by the last name of Gibson, was arrested Wednesday along with Katherine Marylou Menke, 27, of Santa Ana, on suspicion of drug possession in a parking lot of the Walmart store in the Von Karman Plaza, Irvine police said.

The puppy they had in the car they were using appears to have been exposed to fentanyl and showed signs it was experiencing an overdose, police said. Officers gave the dog a dose of Narcan, which can counteract fentanyl overdoses, and rushed the animal to an emergency veterinarian and the dogsurvived, police said.

Eisman had been released from jail on Aug. 24 on his own recognizance, according to jail records.

Eisman is charged with two felony counts of grand theft andmisdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance a drug paraphernalia stemming from an alleged theft of an e-bike on Aug. 18, according to courtrecords. When he was arrested for the alleged theft last month he was wanted on11 warrants, according to court records.

When police searched Eisman's backpack they found two to three gramsof fentanyl, according to court records. Eisman has prior convictions for narcotics sales, possession of a dirkor dagger, domestic battery, brandishing a weapon, vandalism, theft, DUI,possession of burglary tools, tear gas and a stun gun, according to courtrecords.

Menke pleaded guilty in May to misdemeanor possession of drugparaphernalia and was sentenced to six days in jail, according to courtrecords.