CJ woman pleads guilty to abandoning dead Joplin Honky

A Carl Junction woman who did not seek help for a dying man because she thought she might get into trouble for using meth pleaded guilty this morning in Jasper County Circuit Court to a charge of abandoning a corpse.

Chelsie Berry, 25, told the Newton County Sheriff's Department that she had left the body of Dennis "Nathan" Meier, described by the department as a member of the Joplin Honkies gang on a driveway near Diamond. (Her statements can be found in the probable cause affidavit.)