A former Pike County police officer has been handed a decade-long prison sentence after it was found he spearheaded a drug trafficking operation that sent a slew of steroid packages across the United States and distributed significant quantities of cocaine, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio. Mark Anglemyer, Jr., a 42-year-old from Waverly, Ohio, saw the hammer drop in U.S. District Court, wherein his past as an enforcer of the law sharply contrasted his descent into criminality. The results of a federal investigation painted a clear picture of his wrongdoings, which have led to his 10-year sentence.
Anglemyer's illegal activities persisted from 2019 to 2024, during which he imported materials from China to concoct anabolic steroids and acquired cocaine by the kilogram from California, to channel into the local vein of Waverly's streets; his enterprise involved using residences in Pike County to cook up the drug mixtures and then leveraging the United States Postal Service to dispatch them to his customer base, a revelation brought forth by court documents highlighted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
The disintegration of his Californian cocaine sources prompted Anglemyer and an unnamed accomplice to venture to Colombia in search of an alternative; an attempt was made to transport cocaine from Colombia to Waverly, though it never reached its intended destination. The United States Attorney's Office reports that these efforts crashed as federal authorities were a step ahead, leading to their indictment by a federal grand jury in May 2024 and Anglemyer's guilty plea in April of the following year to the charges of conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and anabolic steroids.
The case against Anglemyer was solidified by a collaborative law enforcement effort, with contributions from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Dominick S. Gerace II, DEA Special Agent in Charge, Joseph O. Dixon, and Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Lesley Allison as explained in a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Ohio. U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley served Anglemyer's sentence, with Assistant U.S. Attorneys Nicole Pakiz and Damoun Delaviz representing the United States, solidifying a narrative that saw a protector of the public trust falling into the abyss of that which he once stood against, a narrative of fall and punishment now culminating in a 10-year period of atonement behind bars.
