"It's been total hell:" Man cleared of drug charges
Now, where does he go to get back his business and reputation?
Loveland resident Jeremy Chad Myers walked from a district courtroom Thursday with tears in his eyes and said he feels “as innocent as ever.”
Myers considers himself vindicated because 8th Judicial District prosecutors dropped all drug charges against him for what three reports show is a false accusation he was cooking and using methamphetamine in his home at the old sugar factory in Loveland.
Colorado Bureau of Investigation tests on substances seized by the Larimer County Drug Task Force seized after a no-knock raid in September all came back “no controlled substances;” no amphetamine, no ephedrine, for which initial on-site screens tested positive.
Myers also voluntarily submitted to a hair follicle test, which will reveal if a person has used or been around drugs for 90 days. He passed.
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Jeremy has nearly lost his business as a self-employed back-hoe operator and has had to sell his equipment.
Jim [Myers, Jeremy’s father] had to pay to have the property tested and posted $75,000 in bonds for his son.
And they have faced the rumors and talk in Loveland, the community they call home.
The “war on drugs” is not victimless.