obtain any drugs during a final meeting Sept. 25, when the Blakers said they were cut off from their supplier, court documents state.
The couple first offered sex to an undercover agent Sept. 10, when Neel-Blaker quoted him a price of $100, court documents state. Neel-Blaker explained to the agent that if he wanted to bring his friends over, she was willing to have sex with three men per night, but would not do oral sex, because “her teeth weren’t that good.”
At a later meeting Sept. 25, Neel-Bleeker allegedly offered the agents oral sex for $40.
“I told Virginia that I would tell my work crew about her offer and make sure they all behaved like gentlemen with her,” the agent wrote in an affidavit for Neel-Blaker’s arrest. “I then spoke to James about Virginia’s offer and he stated that it was all good because it was business.”
Neel-Blaker allegedly squirted milk from her breast Sept. 12 in one ruse to interest the agents in her offer.
The couple allegedly left their infant daughter Virginica Blaker in an unattended truck throughout the Sept. 10 meeting with agents, documents state. At the Sept. 25 meeting, Neel-Blaker filled the child’s cup with beer, telling the agents that was how she got her to sleep.
State Police Lt. Juan Martinez, of Region III, said Tuesday the undercover investigation of the couple would have continued, resulting in more charges, but concerns for the child’s welfare cut it short. The child is currently in the care of the state Children Youth and Family Department, Martinez said. She was suffering from dehydration when she was taken into custody.
“The child was the ultimate concern in this case,” Martinez said. “The fact that they gave her alcohol as an alternative to water must have been an indicator to why the child is dehydrated.”
Martinez said his agency believes Neel-Blaker is the same person as a Virginia Ann Marken, a registered sex offender in Washington.
The couple were both charged with three counts of heroin trafficking, distribution of marijuana and child abuse, documents state. Neel-Blaker was charged with prostitution and Blaker was charged with promoting prostitution, documents state. The two are being held on $25,000 each at Rio Arriba County Jail.
Rio Arriba County Public Housing Authority had been trying to evict the couple, who lived in the complex almost a year, for the past four months, because of nonpayment and “bizarre behavior,” Authority Executive Director Angie Pacheco said Tuesday.
“(Blaker) painted the fence orange and was hoarding things in the yard,” Pacheco said. “They were dirty and stinky. They would fight in front of you — they’re really gross.”
Martinez said living conditions at the apartment were filthy beyond description.
“I can’t even imagine the child crawling around in that house,” Martinez said. “It was totally a mess, you’d have to see it to believe it.”
The Housing Authority did not receive complaints of possible drug activity in the Blakers’ apartment, but did hear rumors of prostitution, Pacheco said.
Another tenant reported that Neel-Blaker complained to him that Blaker was pimping out his wife, and asked him to take their child, Pacheco said.
Ironically, Blaker himself called the housing office almost every day with information about his neighbors using or selling drugs, Pacheco said. Blaker even claimed to be videotaping the neighbors to show police the evidence, Pacheco said.
“He was coming in all the time acting like he had the scoop on everybody,” Pacheco said. “He would call us and tell us, ‘I hate drugs.’”
In retrospect, Pacheco speculates the orange fence may have been used to designate the apartment to customers.