GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – A Green Bay woman is facing several drug-related charges after getting caught with meth while sitting in a car.
19-year-old Betheny Ann Walstrom is charged with six counts, including being party to possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine, party to possession of narcotic drugs and extradition – arrest prior to requisition.
According to the criminal complaint, Green Bay police officers went to the Kwik Trip store in the 1700 block of E. Mason Street around 1 a.m. on February 19. One of the officers noticed a yellow Chevrolet Cavalier with a gray stripe painted along the bottom of the vehicle near the front entrance.
Inside that car was a man and a woman sitting. About 15 minutes later, the officers were dispatched to a welfare check on Imperial Lane. Leaving the store, the car was now parked several spots away in the same lot.
The car did not have a front license plate, and officers ran the rear license plate and found that the registered owner was a woman who lives in Appleton. Another officer also noticed the man had put a backpack in the truck of the car before they left the parking lot.
Further investigation of the vehicle found that it had been stopped previously by the Brown County Sheriff’s Department and the man driving had been associated with prior drug use.
A short time later while their squad car was parked across from the Blackstone restaurant to monitor traffic, the officers spotted the same car pulling into the Kwik Trip parking lot and again parking. This time, the cops followed them and noticed the man putting a second backpack in the trunk.
Both people inside the car were identified and asked to get out of the car. The woman was identified as Betheny Walstrom. A pit bull also inside the car was removed. The officers noticed an orange glass pipe in the center console of the car, along with a fixed blade knife about 8-inches long on the floorboard.
A K-9 unit was called in and the dog sniffed for drugs. The K-9 indicated heavily in the back of the vehicle.
Upon searching the car, the orange glass pipe had a clear white glass-like residue in the stem of the pipe. There were also several used syringes in the backseat, along with a red biohazard container with a clear white top commonly used to dispose of needles in hospitals that was about half-full.
A black purse was also found, which contained several used needles and a gray sunglass case. Inside that case were, “Several designer gem baggies that had a clear and cloudy glass-like substance.” That substance tested out to be methamphetamine weighing 2.41 grams.
Several packaged pills were also found and those were identified as Buprenorphine Hydrochloride and Naloxone Hydrochloride, Clonazepam, Acetaminophen and Oxycodone, and Morphine Sulfate extended release tablets.
Betheny Walstrom is due back in Brown County court on March 30 for an extradition hearing and arraignment. If convicted on all charges, Walstrom faces about 20 years in prison.
