A Chandler meth head who put his 7-month-old baby in his freezer last year was in a Maricopa County Superior Court this morning, where Judge Robert Gottsfield sentenced him to 10 years in prison and lifetime probation.
Chance Kracke pleaded guilty to two counts of child abuse following an August 16 incident in which he -- in a meth-induced haze -- put the baby in the
freezer while he made a snack. Luckily, the baby survived.
Kracke opted to put the baby in the freezer because, as he later told
police, the floor of the apartment was too disgusting for a
baby. However, New Times acquired court documents showing that after
Kracke removed the baby from the freezer, he put the child on the
grotesque floor anyway.
Kracke's wife, Leann Kracke, managed to stay out of prison for her role
in the abuse of the couple's baby. She was sentenced to lifetime
probation for child abuse charges and three years probation for
possession of drug paraphernalia found in the couple's home.
The Kracke's floor, while revolting, was
not the grossest thing about their apartment -- as we noted in a post titled "Five Meth-iest Things About the Apartment of Guy Accused of
Putting Baby in Freezer."
Click here for a link to our list. Some of the highlights can be seen below:
5) "Hundreds" of cockroaches:
Nothing gives the impression of genuine, meth-related filth than cockroaches. According to the court docs, there were cockroaches "in the hundreds" in the Kracke's apartment -- most of which were located in the kitchen, where Kracke put the baby on the floor.
4) A rusty razor blade:
Nothing screams drug use like the presence of a razor blade on a coffee table in a disgusting apartment occupied by admitted meth addicts -- and the rustier the better. It's just an indication as to the level of commitment the user of the razor has to his or her drug of choice -- the thinking being: Why buy new razor blades to chop up meth when you could spend that money on more meth? The rusty razor blade found in the Kracke's home was on an end table in reach of both children.
3) Urine and feces. Everywhere.
In the depths of a meth binge, why bother hitting up a toilet when there's a perfectly good floor right at your disposal? Police found both urine and feces on the floor in theKracke's house. They haven't determined whether it was from a human or whether it was from the couple's dog, which raises the question: When it's apparent you can barely take care of yourself, why bring an animal into the situation?
2) A broken, glass entertainment center that shattered when homeowner kicked his dog into it.
Broken glass is a must in the home of any true meth-head, and it was in abundance at the home of the Krackes. Most notably, a glass entertainment center that was broken when Chance Kracke admittedly kicked his dog into it. The broken glass was within reach of both of the Kracke's children, court docs claim.
1) Meth, obviously.
You can't have a filthy, depraved meth den without the obvious: meth. Cops found two glass pipes, on which there was meth residue. The pipes, shockingly, were not within reach of the pair's two children; rather, they were safely stored on the top shelf in the closet of the Krackes' master bedroom.
*Some of the more disgusting trinkets found in the couple's home, which didn't make the list because it's more just trashy than it is meth-y, is a collection of several open bottles of chewing tobacco spit that littered the apartment. The bottles, Leann Kracke admitted to police, were hers -- not her husbands -- and were also in reach of the kids.
