Guilty plea in drug sales; codefendant charged

A 30-year-old ex-felon is to plead guilty April 6 to possession of a controlled substance for sale, second offense, in connection with the alleged sales of heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine.

Cody Gene Neubauer is in Douglas County Jail following his arrest Feb. 11 on nearly a dozen charges.

Neubauer was accused of stealing evidence from his own vehicle after it was taken to the county impound yard.

According to reports, a deputy observed Neubauer Feb. 10 in his vehicle in a liquor store parking lot on Langley Drive. The officer said several subjects were around the driver's window and appeared to be handing Neubauer something. Others appeared to be acting as lookouts.

The officer followed Neubauer's vehicle as it left the parking lot and initiated a traffic stop. The deputy contacted another officer who brought his K-9 partner. The dog alerted for suspicion of narcotics, but Neubauer refused to allow officers to search the vehicle which was seized as evidence and towed to the sheriff's office evidence yard.

On Feb. 11, officers arrested Neubauer at his residence in the 1400 block of Kimmerling.

Through a window officers observed drug paraphernalia on a bed, including a scale, glass pipe, plastic bags and a metal box disguised as a book.

The box reportedly contained 38.6 grams of what appeared to be cocaine, three grams of methamphetamine, a tin foil ball containing black tar heroin, two Vicodin prescription pills, glass pipe and scale.

Deputies also located a surveillance camera reportedly taken by Neubauer from his own vehicle after it was seized for evidence and taken to the impound yard. Officers said after Neubauer's Jeep was impounded, he called around trying to locate his vehicle. He and a friend reportedly went to the county's impound yard and returned an hour later with the scale and surveillance camera.

A records check revealed that Neubauer was not registered as an ex-felon despite at least two felony convictions in 2002.

That charge is to be adjudicated after disposition of the felony case.

Codefendant Danielle Cook, 20, is set for a hearing April 14.

She is charged with four counts of possession of a controlled substance, including methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine, and possession of a dangerous drug without a prescription, Vicodin.

East Fork Justice Jim EnEarl allowed her to remain on house arrest and ordered her to appear for drug testing Monday through Friday at the Department of Alternative Sentencing.

She is forbidden to have contact with Neubauer.

EnEarl appointed lawyer Tod Young to represent Cook.

"Do you have any idea how serious these charges are?" EnEarl asked.

"I understand what I did wrong," Cook said. "I don't want to be involved with that anymore."