Crime & Safety
Heroin-A-Plenty: Muskego Woman Charged With Possession
Police say they found bindles of heroin on a Muskego woman during a Waukesha traffic stop in June.
A 40-year-old Muskego woman is accused of carrying heroin in her car, after troopers searched her car during a traffic stop in Waukesha.
Tracy M. Mayer was charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court Wednesday with one count of possession of narcotic drugs. If convicted, she faces up to 1 ½ years in prison and $10,000 in fines.
According to the criminal complaint:
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On June 1, Mayer was pulled over by a Wisconsin State Trooper on Oakdale Drive near School Road and she informed the officer she had just been in a domestic dispute. A Waukesha police officer then arrived on the scene and searched Mayer’s car, where he found three bindles (sacks) of heroin and another five bindles in Mayer’s purse.
Mayer told the officer she had just started using heroin and she purchased 11 bindles earlier that day from a guy at a gas station located at North 7th Street and Capitol Drive in Milwaukee.
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Mayer will make her initial appearance in court Nov. 26.