The transgender pal arrested with escaped “Slender Man” stabber Morgan Geyser has been arrested quite a few instances, together with for home abuse — and would sneak in to see Geyser in her group residence by climbing by means of the window, based on data.
Chad Mecca, 43, was arrested alongside Geyser, 23, at a truck cease in Poysen, Illinois, late Sunday, simply over 24 hours after Geyser had reduce off her ankle monitor with a pair of scissors and fled from the group residence she was ordered to remain in additional than 150 miles away in Madison, Wisconsin.
Mecca, who’s listed as male within the arrest report however is described as a transgender lady by Geyser, has an array of arrests, courtroom data seen by The Publish present.
That features expenses in February final yr for disorderly conduct/home violence and battery as a home abuse incident in Rock County, Wisconsin. Mecca was ordered to pay $50 plus prices after pleading no contest to disorderly conduct, whereas the battery cost was dismissed, the data present.
Geyser’s pal — who was seen with raveled blue hair and in a low-cut pink prime in a mug shot — additionally confronted quite a few site visitors expenses, together with driving with a suspended license, working a purple mild, failing to put on a seat belt and never being attentive to the street, data present.
Mecca solely not too long ago met Geyser at a church in Madison. Authorities didn’t element the precise nature of the pair’s relationship, however they grew to become so shut Mecca would sneak in to see Geyser within the group residence that native authorities had bitterly fought her being allowed to maneuver to, the docs present.
“[Geyser] said that on a number of events, [Mecca] visited her on the group residence by climbing her window and sneaking in,” said the arrest report from when the pair had been picked up on the run in Posen.
“When requested about her ankle monitor, she [Geyser] said that she reduce it off with scissors and that she and [Mecca] mentioned probably making their method to Nashville, Tennessee,” the report stated, with out detailing why they wished to finish up in Music Metropolis.
Mecca was reportedly sad with how Geyser was “handled” at her group residence, the place she moved in March regardless of well being authorities warning of “purple flags” that ought to preserve her locked up in a psychiatric hospital.
“Because of her being mistreated on the group residence and him not with the ability to go to her, they each determined to run away from the group residence,” the police report said.
The pair boarded a Greyhound Bus from Wisconsin to Chicago, earlier than strolling to the southside of the town, the place they boarded a bus to Posen, the place they ran out of cash and stopped on the gasoline station.
Mecca was charged with prison trespass and obstructing identification and launched on a quotation and a discover to look in courtroom.
Geyser was processed on a nationwide extradition warrant and was anticipated to look in courtroom on Tuesday.
In 2014, Geyser and one other woman, Anissa Weier, lured classmate Payton Leutner into the woods and stabbed her 19 instances.
She pleaded not responsible on grounds of madness and spent a number of years in a psychological hospital earlier than being moved to a bunch residence in March.
