09-03-2025
Bettendorf woman charged with hosting drug house
A 40-year-old Bettendorf woman was in custody Saturday after Bettendorf Police say she hosted a drug house where a methamphetamine pipe and narcotics were found, according to Scott County Court records.
Alisha Keckler faces a felony charge of gathering where controlled substances are used and a serious misdemeanor charge of unlawful possession of prescription drugs, court records say.
Arrest affidavits say that, during the last two-plus years, a residence on the 600 block of 6th Street in Bettendorf 'has been well known to the Bettendorf Police Department to be a residence frequented by narcotics users/dealers.'
A task force recently purchased methamphetamine with a dealer followed from this residence, say affidavits, which show 'The residence is owned by (Keckler) who resides at this residence' and 'is known to use meth.'
On Feb. 25, a search warrant was executed at the residence, where three people were inside.
After she was read her Miranda Rights, Keckler admitted to being an occasional meth user, and said 'a number of people come and go from the residence and there would likely be drug paraphernalia located during a search,' according to affidavits.
One tenant said a box of drug paraphernalia that gets rotated from bedroom to bedroom would be in the house.
A roommate who was interviewed admitted to being a meth user. A meth bong was in plain view on a shelf.
A search of the house yielded a used meth pipe in Keckler's bedroom along with a plastic bag containing eight Gabapentin pills (non-scheduled/prescription-only narcotic.) No prescription was located for the Gabapentin, affidavits show.
In Keckler's bedroom was a plate containing meth residue, according to affidavits, which say that in the living room in plain view were a meth pipe and a plate containing meth residue.
Keckler, who was being held on $6,000 bond on Saturday in Scott County Jail, is scheduled for a preliminary hearing March 18 in Scott County Court.
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