Cheyenne Transient Busted for Drugs After Allegedly Stealing Bike

A 36-year-old Cheyenne transient is facing multiple charges after allegedly stealing a bicycle.

According to a booking sheet, Ronald Jerome McNeill Jr. was arrested at 11:47 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 16, after a Laramie County Sheriff's deputy was dispatched to the 2400 block of South Greeley Highway for a report of a stolen bicycle and saw McNeill walking away from the bike.

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Stolen Bicycle Report Leads to Felony Drug Charges

The deputy says McNeill told him that it was his dad who had reported the bike stolen and that he was just borrowing it, but the deputy says the reporting party, Russell, pulled up in his car and told him he'd never met McNeill in his life and didn't know him.

The deputy says Russell told him that McNeill walked by his house and started yelling at him that he was a horrible dad to him and messing around with things, then got on the bike and took off.

The deputy says McNeill became very uncooperative so he had to pull out his taser and wait for backup.

Once the other deputies arrived at the scene, McNeill was handcuffed and taken to the Laramie County Detention Center, reportedly becoming uncooperative on the way to the jail.

Search Leads to Meth, Cocaine

The deputy says McNeill was taken straight to a cell and searched, and had a bag of suspected methamphetamine and a bag of suspected cocaine on him.

McNeill was subsequently charged with misdemeanor theft, felony possession of methamphetamine, misdemeanor possession of cocaine, and taking a controlled substance into jail.

Bond Set at $7.5K Cash

McNeill made his initial appearance in Laramie County Circuit Court on Friday, Oct. 18, during which his bond was set at $7,500 cash and his preliminary hearing was scheduled for Friday, Oct. 25 at 9:45 a.m.

Please remember that all suspects are presumed to be innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.