Chopper Faces Drug Possession Charge
Annette Latia-Rose Chopper is facing the charges of criminal possession of dangerous drugs, a felony, and criminal possession of drug paraphernalia, a misdemeanor, in Roosevelt County District Court.
If convicted of the felony charge, the maximum penalties are five years in prison, a $5,000 fine or both.
According to court records, a Roosevelt County Sheriff Office deputy arrived on Broadway Avenue in Culbertson on Oct. 19, to speak with an individual about some allegedly suspicious behavior at his workplace. The individual said a co-worker received a non-alcoholic drink from another co-worker at the a local bar that was possibly spiked with something that made him ill.
When the deputy spoke to one of the co-workers, he confirmed the earlier story. He said he thought that either Shalane Menz-Crazybull or Chopper possibly put something in the drink that made him feel light headed and slightly ill. He did not want to pursue charges.
Deputies later advised Chopper of her misdemeanor warrant and arrested her based on authority of the warrant. Before she could be secured in handcuffs, she tried to hand her purse off to Menz-Crazybull.
Once they arrived at the jail, the deputy turned Chopper over to the detention staff. When the detention staff inventoried the items in Chopper’s purse, they pulled out a nearly empty bottle of whiskey, a can of Twisted Tea and a cut-off straw that was angled on one end and heat-sealed on the other. There was a crystalline residue on the inside of the straw. When Chopper was showed the straw, she confirmed the residue inside the straw was meth and said she last used meth two days earlier. The residue field tested positive for meth.
