51-year-old Donald Mark “Tooter” Myers of Menominee, was sentenced to 20 months to 10 years in prison, following his sentencing on a conviction of Possession of Methamphetamine. According to court documents and information presented in open court, the underlying conviction followed an explosion at a suspected methamphetamine laboratory at 1012 18th Avenue in Menominee on Sunday, May 7th, , 2020. The Upper Peninsula Substance Enforcement Team (UPSET) conducted an investigation and executed search warrants at that location and at 2411 10th Avenue in Menominee. UPSET seized ingredients and equipment needed to manufacture methamphetamine, including lithium strips, “Liquid Fire” drain line opener, Coleman camp fuel, soda bottles containing white powder with a rubber tubing, coffee filters, and other components used in the “One Pot” methamphetamine manufacturing process. Menominee County Prosecuting Attorney Jeffrey Rogg commended the proactive efforts of his UPSET partners, and says, “that methamphetamine is unsafe to produce and unsafe to use. This activity, especially in residential neighborhoods, has the potential to damage property and jeopardize the health and safety of law-abiding citizens of Menominee, by mixing these dangerous chemicals.” “Mr. Myers is an incorrigible, unrepentant criminal, who now has four felony convictions and 15 misdemeanor convictions in a 35-year history of uninterrupted criminal behavior,” says Rogg. “The only way the community can be safe from Mr. Myers is for him to be locked in a prison cell, “Rogg emphasized. Myers was convicted of the crime, by plea, on February 5th, 2024, the prison sentence was handed down on April 26, 2024, by the Honorable Mary B. Barglind in the 41st Circuit Court.