Coworkers of the Oregon human resources manager accused of drugging his daughter’s preteen friends with spiced milkshakes during a sleepover said he had displayed “creepy” behavior in the past.
Michael Meyden, 57, was released on $50,000 bail in March after being charged with multiple felonies when the 12-year-old boys tested positive for benzodiazepines at the hospital.
Now, her coworkers are talking about Meyden, saying her interest in their children would make them uncomfortable.
A colleague said: ‘He always wanted to know about our families. I was wondering about my kids, how old they are, what extracurricular activities they liked. Then he told me what his children were doing. He seemed really innocent at the time.”
However, the anonymous coworker began to see the sinister side, and Meyden went so far as to “like” her daughter’s cheerleading photos on Facebook.
Coworkers of the Oregon human resources manager accused of drugging his daughter’s preteen friends with spiced milkshakes during a sleepover said he had displayed “creepy” behavior in the past.
Michael Meyden, 57, was released on $50,000 bail in March after being charged with multiple felonies when the 12-year-old boys tested positive for benzodiazepines at the hospital. Pictured: Meyden at his 2008 wedding to his wife Yukiko Ishida, the couple filed for divorce in October.
‘He asked questions about her, he knew the names and ages of my children. He kept a record of those things. I thought he was just being nice.
Meyden even had a reputation in his office for being happy, jovial and interested in everyone, according to the New York Post.
Stories about Meyden’s behavior with children have shocked those who knew him. He has pleaded not guilty.
A terrified girl who had refused milkshakes desperately tried to keep her unconscious friends safe from an assault at the August party, a court heard.
He sent a series of frantic ransom text messages while Meyden allegedly hung around the house in Lake Oswego, Oregon, to see if the tranquilizers had taken effect.
“Mom, please pick me up and tell me I had a family emergency. I don’t feel safe,” she wrote as Meyden briefly returned upstairs.
Michael Meyden is named in the search warrant for his $1.3 million home in Lake Oswego, Oregon, where he allegedly drugged his daughter’s friends.
Meyden and his wife Yukiko Ishida-Meyer shared the $1.3 million home in Lake Oswego, but they filed for divorce in October last year and their current address is listed as a trailer park in Vancouver.
‘I may not answer, but please come find me. Please. Please choose. Please. PLEASE!!’
Meyden’s now-deleted LinkedIn profile identifies him as an Arizona State University graduate who worked for the energy company Avangrid.
He and his wife Yukiko Ishida-Meyer shared the $1.3 million home in Lake Oswego, but they filed for divorce in October last year and their current address is listed as a trailer park in Vancouver.
The three girls had joined Meyden’s daughter for a “spa night” sleepover at her home on August 26.
Meyden was “very involved” in the event, taking them to get their nails done and picking up pizza for dinner, according to the affidavit.
Before going to bed, Meyden allegedly made them each two milkshakes and ‘insisted’ that they drink them.
‘Mister. “Meyden specifically gave each of the girls reusable straws of specific colors to distinguish her own drink from her,” the probable cause affidavit states.
‘Mister. Meyden insisted that the girls drink from their own cups.
Meyden in a photo from his now-deleted LinkedIn profile
One girl drank both shakes and another drank a glass, but the third said she didn’t like shakes and barely drank any, police say.
Authorities say one of the girls said the drinks appeared to have “little white bits” in them; on them and that Meyden’s own daughter appeared to have drunk a significant amount.
The girls then retired to the basement, where two slept in a bedroom and the others on a sofa bed.
The only non-drugged girl remained awake and watched Meyden allegedly enter the basement and pull the heavily drugged girl away from her.
When she disappeared upstairs, the girl pulled her unconscious friend to her side only to find Meyden returning and pulling her away again, the affidavit says.
“He put his finger under the awake girl’s nose, as if to see if she was fast asleep, then waved his hand in front of her face,” he told police.
When Meyden allegedly withdrew, she began calling and texting her parents and was eventually able to contact a family friend, who picked her up and took her home.
As word spread, the parents of the other two girls arrived to pick up their daughters at 3 a.m., but Meyden was allegedly reluctant to let them in and told them their daughters were asleep.
The parents took the girls to Randall Children’s Hospital, where they tested positive for benzodiazepines, tranquilizers most commonly used to calm anxiety or help sleep.
The girl who drank two milkshakes told police she started feeling dizzy, hot and clumsy shortly after finishing the second one.
He then “blacked out” and fell into a “deep, deep sleep” the likes of which he had never known before, the affidavit says.
Meyden has been charged with three felony counts of causing another person to ingest a controlled substance, three felony counts of applying a schedule IV controlled substance to the body of a minor, and three misdemeanor counts of delivering a schedule IV controlled substance to a minor. IV.
He turned himself in at the Clackamas County Jail in March and pleaded not guilty at an arraignment hearing Wednesday before being released on $50,000 bail.
The father of two is due back in Clackamas County Court in May.
“Mr. Meyden is presumed innocent,” said his attorney Mark Cogan.
‘We have not seen the evidence. The indictment was handed down by a grand jury behind closed doors, where no judge or defense attorney was allowed.
“And we hope people reserve their judgment until all the facts are known.”
Meyden is due back in court in May.