Scobey Woman Charged With Criminal Endangerment
Carleen Machart of Scobey is facing five charges including the felony count of criminal endangerment in Daniels County District Court.
If convicted of the felony charge, Machart could face the maximum penalty of a sentence of 10 years in the state prison, a $50,000 fine or both.
Misdemeanor charges that she faces include theft, not exceeding $1,500; criminal mischief; stalking, first offense; and theft of embezzlement, value not exceeding $1,500.
According to court records, the Daniels County Sheriff’s Office has documented an escalating pattern of harassment directed at the defendant’s ex-husband including verbal harassment, emails, text messages, harassing items sent through the U.S. mail, comments posted to social media, correspondence sent to the Federal Aviation Administration questioning the victim’s fitness to hold a pilot’s license and notes left on the victim’s vehicle.
On or about Dec. 20, 2024, a harassing text message sent to the victim was traced to an IP address associated with a health center, which is the defendant’s place of employment. The victim reported that the defendant told him, “I could kill you, you know...I’m a nurse and I know what to use.”
As a registered nurse, the defendant has professional access to prescription medications including anticoagulants and blood pressure medications. The defendant has a post office box at the Scobey Post Office close to the victim’s post office box.
During the fall of 2025, while the victim was out of the area and his son was collecting the victim’s mail on the victim’s behalf, the son was unable to locate the key to the victim’s post office box and believed the key had been lost.
In or about October 2025, the victim received a mail-order parcel from a supplier of sildenafil. Rather than sildenafil, the parcel contained round blue tablets and round white tablets. This was the first parcel received by the victim that contained medication different in appearance than parcels previously received.
On or about April 26, the victim ingested four of the white pills and experienced dizziness and visual gray-outs. On or about May 2, the victim received another mail-order parcel from a prescription drug supplier. Rather than sildenafil, the parcel again contained round blue tablets and round white tablets.
The company confi rmed that it does not stock or ship the medications recovered from the parcel, indicating that the parcel’s contents had been altered after the parcel left the company’s control.
After the Daniels County Sheriff took custody of the recovered tablets, they were identified as eight tablets of Warfarin, which is a prescription anticoagulant, and seven tablets of a prescription blood pressure medication. Neither medication had been prescribed to the victim. Warfarin, in particular, carries a risk of severe or life-threatening bleeding and requires regular monitoring to dose safely.
In early May, the victim received another parcel and observed that its seal was offset and inconsistent with the manufacturer’s normal packaging. The victim found 10 tabl ets marked “G 41” and “25,” later identified as carvedilol, rather than the sildenafi l tablets indicated on the shipping label.
On May 19, another parcel from the company was opened in the presence of the sheriff. Its seal was intact and its contents (10 sildenafil) matched the shipping label. It was returned to the victim.
When another parcel arrived on July 27, the victim was away from the area working as an agricultural pilot. At the victim’s request, the postmaster photographed the parcel’s seal before placing it in the victim’s box. Sometime after the post office closed at 5 p.m. on July 27, and before the next morning, the parcel was removed from the victim’s box. A postal employee reported observing the defendant accessing the victim’s post office box during this period to confirm that the defendant possessed a means of access to the victim’s box. The parcel reappeared in the victim’s box on July 29. Postal staff determined that its seal had again been altered.
On Aug. 25, an DCI agent arranged for a covert camera to be installed at the Scobey Post Office and coordinated physical surveillance of the defendant. At about 12:55 p.m., the defendant left her place of employment and traveled to the post office by an indirect route.
Surveillance video confi rmed that the defendant removed a white parcel, consistent with in appearance with the victim’s other prescription drug shipments, from the victim’s post office box and that she carried it, together with her own mail, to her residence.
Agents then executed a previously issued search warrant at the defendant’s residence. The search recovered the victim’s intercepted parcel, a post offi ce key bearing the same number as the victim’s box key, credit card and bank statements belonging to the victim, several pills including blood pressure medication, miscellaneous mail addressed to the victim and a tube of Gorilla brand tape consistent with re-sealing the tampered parcels.
After the defendant was advised of her Miranda rights and agreed to speak with investigators, she directed agents to the victim’s intercepted parcel, the victim’s diverted medication, the substitute medication and additional mail belonging to the victim.
The defendant admitted that she had been intercepting the victim’s mail and replacing his medication with blood pressure medication. She states that she thought replacing the victim’s medication “would be funny.”
She also said that she initially began examining the victim’s mail in an effort to determine what had happened to funds intended to pay for the parties’ children’s college educations. She said that the substitute medication had come from an expired medication disposal bin at the health center.
District Judge Benjamin Fosland has recused himself from the case.
