Drug dealer from Grafton sentenced to three years

A Town of Grafton man who was in the Ozaukee County jail in 2024 when he called his girlfriend on a recorded line to advise her how to run his drug business while he was behind bars was sentenced to three years in prison last week.

Ozaukee County Circuit Judge Steve Cain also sentenced Nicholos Meyer, 47,  to three years of extended supervision following his incarceration after accepting his plea of no contest to a felony count of manufacturing/delivering amphetamine during a Feb. 3 hearing.

Meyer’s girlfriend, Nicole M. Jablonowski, pleaded guilty to the same charge and was sentenced by Cain to five years in prison and five years of extended supervision, although the judge stayed the sentence and placed her on probation for three years, which means she won’t have to serve it if she abides by the conditions of probation.

Jablonowski also pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, and for that crime Cain sentenced her to two years in prison followed by two years of extended supervision.

According to the criminal complaint, on Nov. 21, 2024, the Ozaukee County Sheriff’s Office was notified by the Brown County Drug Task Force that Meyer had been selling methamphetamine to a suspect in one of its investigations. It was reported that Jablonowski had taken over Meyer’s drug business after he began serving time in the Ozaukee County jail related to a previous case.

Ozaukee County authorities began monitoring recorded phone conversations Meyer had with Jablonowski while he was in jail, and during a Nov. 24 call Jablonowski told Meyer that his sister, who is on probation for running a drug house in Fond du Lac County, wanted some “bread,” the complaint states.

In subsequent phone conversations later that month, Meyer and Jablonowski discussed how much to charge his sister —mentioning prices that are consistent with the street values of methamphetamine and cocaine — as well as the availability and delivery of bread, who to contact about getting bread, not shorting customers and selling enough bread to pay the rent.

Investigators believed that “bread” was a code word for drugs chosen by the couple because Jablonowski worked at a bakery.

Authorities obtained a warrant to place a GPS tracking device on Jablonowski’s GMC Yukon, which between Jan. 3 and Jan. 28 went to “known high-intensity drug areas” in Milwaukee, Jablonowski’s apartment and Fond du Lac near where Meyer’s sister lived, the complaint states.

Meyer was released from jail on Jan. 28 and was picked up by Jablonowski in her Yukon. The tracking device showed the couple went to their apartment and a bank in Grafton before driving to Slinger, a location in Fond du Lac near where Meyer’s sister lived and back to Ozaukee County.

The couple were detained by authorities at a Port Washington store and taken to their apartment, where authorities served a search warrant.

In the master bedroom, authorities found methamphetamine in various forms, bags used to package drugs for sale, a tourniquet, digital scale, syringes loaded with a liquid that tested positive for methamphetamine and glass smoking pipes. They also found a syringe that contained carfentanil, a significantly more potent derivative of fentanyl that is used to tranquilize large animals like elephants, according to the complaint.

In all, 16.3 grams of powder or crystal methamphetamine, 401 milliliters of a liquid containing methamphetamine and 10 milliliters of a liquid containing carfentanil were found in the apartment.

During an interview with investigators, Jablonowski initially denied using or selling methamphetamine, but when informed about the recorded phone calls from jail, she said she sent text messages to someone Meyer knows and that person picked the drugs up, the complaint states.

When authorities confronted Jablonowski about delivering methamphetamine to Meyer’s sister, she said she brought her Irish soda bread but later admitted to bringing her methamphetamine four or five times, according to the complaint.

Jablonowski said she typically snorts methamphetamine and Meyer injects it. She said they “hot railed” methamphetamine the day of their arrest, referring to heating the drug until it is red hot and inhaling the fumes. She said she knew Meyer sold methamphetamine and felt obligated to conduct drug deals for him while he was in jail, the complaint states.

Meyer told authorities he and Jablonowski moved in together after he was released from prison and he noticed from looking at her phone that she was buying drugs. When he got out of the Ozaukee County jail early last year, he said, he saw all the methamphetamine in their apartment and couldn’t resist using it.

Meyer said he recently received a $21,000 inheritance and deposited it into Jablonowski’s account so he wouldn’t be tempted to use the money to buy methamphetamine. He said his mother told him Jablonowski was using him and setting him up, but he didn’t think she was that sly, the complaint states.

When asked about his drug activity in Brown County, which resulted in the tip that started the Ozaukee County investigation, Meyer said he was the middle man and put a Milwaukee supplier in touch with a buyer from Green Bay, according to the complaint.

Additional charges against Meyer and Jablonowski were dismissed as part of plea agreements.

Meyer’s Ozaukee County sentence is consecutive, or in addition, to one he is serving in Fond du Lac County for a 2020 possession of methamphetamine conviction. A judge in that county initially withheld a sentence and placed Meyer on probation, but his probation was later revoked and he was sentenced to prison.

Meyer was also convicted in January 2022 of fleeing an officer in Washington County.

Jablonowski was convicted in December 2021 of possession of methamphetamine in Washington County, according to court records.