WAVERLY, Ohio (WCMH) — A former police officer in Pike County will spend the next decade in federal prison for his role in running a steroid and cocaine ring out of southern Ohio.
According to prosecutors, a U.S. District Court judge sentenced Mark Anglemyer Jr. to 10 years for leading a drug trafficking ring that was responsible for mailing more than 2,500 parcels of steroids and distributing 11 kilograms of cocaine.
Anglemyer, of Waverly, was reported to have imported precursor chemicals from China and traveled nationally and internationally to secure drugs. The 42-year-old former officer previously worked with the Pike County Sheriff’s Office, as well as the Piketon, Waverly and Wellston police departments.
Court documents reveal that Anglemyer ran a drug trafficking operation out of Waverly between 2019 and 2024, when he was dealing anabolic steroids and cocaine.
The raw materials he imported from China were used to manufacture the steroids, which Anglemyer then used to produce steroid mixtures at various residences in the Pike County area. He shipped the steroids to customers across the country via the Postal Service.
In addition, Anglemyer also secured kilogram quantities of cocaine from California and then sold and distributed them in the Waverly area. For a previous report on this story view the video player above.
Once Anglemyer’s cocaine suppliers were arrested by federal agents, he and another defendant flew to Colombia to seek another supplier and attempted to mail cocaine from Colombia to Waverly.
He and three co-defendants were indicted by a grand jury in May 2024 and nearly a year later he pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and anabolic steroids.
The three co-conspirators named in the case are Arin Sodaro and Heather Howell of Waverly, and Blake Mankin of Piketon.
Mankin was sentenced to one year in prison and Howell was sentenced to three years of community control for the same charge as Anglemyer. Sodaro’s next court appearance is scheduled for Jan. 9.