Cascade woman, 19, charged with homicide in friend’s fatal overdose
A 19-year-old woman from Cascade is among the latest people charged with homicide for a friend’s fatal heroin overdose.
Sabrina R. Kraemer faces a single count of first-degree reckless homicide, filed Thursday in Ozaukee County Circuit Court.
According to the criminal complaint:
On June 26, Kraemer and Nicholas J. Walczak, 19, also of Cascade, a village of about 700 people in Sheboygan County, planned a trip to Milwaukee to buy heroin from Kraemer’s drug connection, known as Cash, who Kraemer told police supplied most of the heroin users in the Cascade area.
Walczak picked up Kraemer around 11:30 a.m. at a methadone clinic in Sheboygan.
Then they stopped to buy crack cocaine in the Plymouth area, which they smoked on the way to Milwaukee.
They met Cash at an unspecified gas station, where Kraemer entered his car and purchased an unspecified amount of heroin. She and Walczak then went to a nearby McDonald’s to inject some of the heroin.
Kraemer said Walczak said he wasn’t feeling any effect, so he injected a little more.
While driving back to Cascade, Walczak began having trouble breathing and pulled off I-43 at Mequon Road. Kraemer called 911 before he collapsed about 1 p.m. He died a few days later, according to an online obituary.
Kraemer was able to identify a photo of Cash, who is actually Jonathan D. Lyons, 27, of Brown Deer.
He was charged in July with the delivery of heroin in August 2016 and in a separate case with possessing heroin with intent to distribute, carrying a concealed weapon, fleeing and resisting an officer, all for offenses on July 2.
Each case is set for trial in Milwaukee County next year.