Michael Meyden is accused of making the smoothies with benzodiazepine, a drug typically prescribed for anxiety, according to a probable cause affidavit.

Michael Meyden is accused of making the smoothies with benzodiazepine, a drug typically prescribed for anxiety, according to a probable cause affidavit.

An Oregon man accused of spiking smoothies with sedatives and giving them to his daughter’s pre-teen friends has been charged with multiple felonies, according to court documents.

Michael Meyden, 57, of Lake Oswego, allegedly drugged three of his daughter’s friends while they slept over on the night of Aug. 25, 2023, according to court documents and a probable cause affidavit filed this week in Clackamas County.

The girls, all 12 years old, were hospitalized and tested positive for benzodiazepine, described in the affidavit as a drug typically prescribed for anxiety, with common prescriptions under the names Valium, Xanax and Klonopin. Benzodiazepines are a depressant that produces sedation, sleepiness and a relaxed mood, the affidavit said.

  • Herbal Gamer@sh.itjust.works
    42·
    8 months ago

    According to the affidavit, two girls slept on a pull-out couch in the basement, while two others slept in a bedroom in the basement. The third girl, who didn’t drink much of the smoothie, reported that Meyden came downstairs more than once. She had been sleeping close to another girl and said Meyden tried to physically separate the two, the document stated.

    After Meyden went back upstairs, the third girl, frightened for her friend who had been sleeping heavily, again pulled close to her, the affidavit said.

    Meyden returned a second time and again tried to separate the girls from each other. He also put his finger underneath the nose of the girl who pretended to be sleeping “as if to see if she was soundly asleep, he then waved his hand in front of her face,” she told police, according to the affidavit.

    I’m not sure but it does sound fishy as fuck.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      62·
      8 months ago

      I don’t disagree. But you’d think the article would be more explicit if he was suspected of sexually assaulting the girls.

      • xantoxis@lemmy.world
        292·
        8 months ago

        The parents showed up before he could. Also, one of the girls wasn’t affected as much and was able to run defense.

        He was trying to sexually assault them. There’s no question here.

        • Llewellyn@lemm.ee
          25·
          8 months ago

          He has something fishy in mind - that’s for certain.

          But how can you say “there’s no question” about whether he wanted to sexually assault them?

          Maybe he wanted to kill them or something.

      • aStonedSanta@lemm.ee
        131·
        8 months ago

        Might just be written with context they were given and not insinuation. Which is good. But yeah. It seems he was trying to be a predator here from the context.

      • TheHarpyEagle@lemmy.world
        12·
        8 months ago

        They can’t say for sure because, thank goodness, it didn’t happen. But there are very few good explanations for heavily drugging children and attempting to physically move them.

      • Notyou@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        8 months ago

        Some news places wouldn’t want to assume and put it in writing since that might “taint a jury pool” of they read about it before trial. Or a libel suit if the news places was wrong in their assumption.

        I believe that sexual assault/rape was 100% his goal, but I’m not a new organization.