Warren Woman charged with selling prescription pain pills

Staff report

WARREN

Kevin J. Myers, 46, of Harvard Drive Southeast in Warren and West Boulevard in Youngstown, is in the Trumbull County jail in lieu of $5,000 bond after police charged him with felony drug possession.

A woman also is charged with drug trafficking in prescription pain pills.

A not-guilty plea was entered for Myers on Wednesday in Warren Municipal Court after his arrest at 6:55 p.m. Tuesday during a traffic stop on Niles Road at Roman Street Southeast. Myers also pleaded not guilty to driving under suspension and a stop-sign violation.

Warren narcotics investigators in the Street Crimes Unit discovered that Myers was driving without a license and had a warrant, then found a bottle containing Vicodin (hydrocondone-acetaminophen) with Sheila A. Owens’ name on it. The bottle was for 90 pills, but there were 75 in it.

Myers told police that Owens, 40, of Roman Street Southeast, apparently left the bottle in his car earlier when he was helping her with a car problem, but police went to Owens’ home and questioned her.

Owens said she “sells the pills to Myers because he doesn’t have insurance and he can’t get them for himself,” police said.

Owens said she “gets 90 pills and sells 76 to Myers for $142. Owens stated that her monthly bills are so high that she really needs the money,” according to a police report.

A detective then counted money that was sitting on Owens’ coffee table, and it came to $143, and Owens admitted that was the money Myers had paid her.

Police left without arresting Owens, but a warrant was filed for her Wednesday in municipal court charging her with aggravated drug trafficking.

If convicted, both face a possible prison sentence of up to three years.