Chandler Meth Head Who Put Baby in Freezer Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison

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 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.