Man serving life for crash that killed couple outside restaurant sentenced for drugs, guns
Mason Meyer is already serving a life sentence for killing a husband and wife in 2020 when he crashed into them as they were on a Newport restaurant's outdoor patio.
Meyer, now 32, was being pursued by Cincinnati police that day because investigators, who were conducting surveillance outside a Lower Price Hill home, saw him "engage in what they believed to be a gun sale," according to court documents.
Meyer already was suspected of involvement in guns and drug dealing. Eleven days before, police tried to pull over his vehicle, but he sped away and was not pursued. But on Aug. 7, 2020, police did pursue him. Meyer led officers on a high-speed chase from Lower Price Hill, through Downtown, across the Roebling Suspension Bridge, through Covington and into Newport, where the crash happened.
Meyer's crimes led to parallel prosecutions in state and federal court. On Thursday, June 5, in federal court in Cincinnati, Meyer became the last of 16 defendants to be sentenced for massive drug and gun conspiracies, officials said.
One co-defendant, Ryan Haskamp, who was described as a major drug supplier locally, was sentenced in February to 27 years in prison.
Meyer provided Haskamp with guns in exchange for drugs, prosecutors said.
In the investigation, law enforcement seized 11 guns, and hundreds of pounds of drugs, including more than one kilo of methamphetamine, more than 200 pounds of the psychedelic drug DMT, more than five kilos of marijuana and 15 kilos of hashish and hashish oil. Nineteen thousand doses of LSD as well as fentanyl, cocaine, ecstasy and other drugs were seized.
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Man serving life for crash that killed couple outside restaurant sentenced for drugs, guns
Mason Meyer is already serving a life sentence for killing a husband and wife in 2020 when he crashed into them as they were on a Newport restaurant's outdoor patio. Meyer, now 32, was being pursued by Cincinnati police that day because investigators, who were conducting surveillance outside a Lower Price Hill home, saw him "engage in what they believed to be a gun sale," according to court documents. Meyer already was suspected of involvement in guns and drug dealing. Eleven days before, police tried to pull over his vehicle, but he sped away and was not pursued. But on Aug. 7, 2020, police did pursue him. Meyer led officers on a high-speed chase from Lower Price Hill, through Downtown, across the Roebling Suspension Bridge, through Covington and into Newport, where the crash happened. Meyer's crimes led to parallel prosecutions in state and federal court. On Thursday, June 5, in federal court in Cincinnati, Meyer became the last of 16 defendants to be sentenced for massive drug and gun conspiracies, officials said. One co-defendant, Ryan Haskamp, who was described as a major drug supplier locally, was sentenced in February to 27 years in prison. Meyer provided Haskamp with guns in exchange for drugs, prosecutors said. In the investigation, law enforcement seized 11 guns, and hundreds of pounds of drugs, including more than one kilo of methamphetamine, more than 200 pounds of the psychedelic drug DMT, more than five kilos of marijuana and 15 kilos of hashish and hashish oil. Nineteen thousand doses of LSD as well as fentanyl, cocaine, ecstasy and other drugs were seized. This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Man serving life for fatal Newport crash convicted in drug, gun case
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