Occupant of Meth-tastic Apartment Sentenced to Probation After Husband Put Baby in Freezer

A Chandler woman, now-infamous for occupying one of the meth-ier apartments on record — in which her methed-up husband put their 7-month-old baby in the freezer — copped a plea deal this morning that will keep her out of the clink.

Leann Kracke pled guilty this morning to two counts of child abuse, and one count of possession of drug paraphernalia. In exchange for the guilty pleas, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Michael Kemp sentenced Kracke to lifetime probation for the child abuse charges, and three years probation for the drug paraphernalia.

The charges stem from an August 16, incident, in which her husband, Chance Kracke — in a meth-induced haze — put the 7-month-old in the freezer while he made a snack. Luckily, the baby survived.

Chance Kracke opted to put the baby in the freezer because, as he later told police, the floor of the couple’s apartment was too disgusting for a baby. However, New Times acquired court documents that show after Kracke removed the baby from the freezer, he put the child on the grotesque floor, anyway.

The Kracke’s floor, while revolting, was not the grossest thing about their apartment — as we noted in a post entitled “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 the

Kracke’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.

Chance Kracke is scheduled to be sentenced for putting his baby in the freezer on February 8.