Lake Oswego man accused of drugging girls to wear GPS monitor after alleged suicide attempt
Records show Michael Meyden overdosed on Lorazepam pills on March 3.
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Lake Oswego man accused of drugging 12-year-old girls at his daughter’s sleepover has been ordered to wear a GPS tracking device.
Michael Meyden, 57, was placed on GPS monitoring on Monday.
This follows an Apr. 30 request from Clackamas County District Attorney John Wentworth, who advised the court to require Meyden to wear a tracking device and prohibit him from using or possessing firearms during his security release.
According to court documents, the defendant attempted suicide the previous month by overdosing on Lorazepam pills. Records show law enforcement officers conducting a welfare check found Meyden unresponsive on March 3.
The man was hospitalized and placed on a peace officer’s hold, as he was considered a danger to himself.
The original incident is believed to have occurred on Aug. 26, 2023, when Meyden supervised his pre-teen daughter’s sleepover. He encouraged four 12-year-old girls to drink mango smoothies before bed, and later delivered the drinks with color-coded straws.
Documents claimed some of the girls noticed a white powder in their drinks, but still drank them because Meyden pushed them to do so.
According to the records, one girl who consumed just a small amount of the smoothie — because she “did not like mangos” — pretended to be asleep because she felt unsafe. Another girl drank two smoothies.
Later that night, Meyden is accused of checking in to confirm whether they were asleep. Documents said he moved the girl who had consumed two smoothies away from the one who barely drank.
The affidavit shows the 12-year-old texted her mother later that night, pleading to be picked up.
All three of the girls were eventually picked up from Meyden’s residence. A test conducted at a children’s hospital found they were exposed to Temazepam, a schedule-four drug used to treat insomnia.
Meyden admitted to making the smoothies, but denied adding any drugs to it. However, a lab test determined there was Temazepam on the straws. Investigators also found dozens of bottles of the drugs in the defendant’s house, each of which had been prescribed to him.
On Feb. 27, he was indicted with three counts of causing another person to ingest a controlled substance, three counts of application of a schedule-four controlled substance to another person and three counts of unlawful delivery of a schedule-four controlled substance to a minor.
He was arraigned on Feb. 28, and released on $50,000 bail the following day.
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