New charge against CJ woman accused of dumping body in Joplin Honkies case

The Carl Junction woman who told police she did not seek help for a dying man because she was high on meth and is charged with abandoning his corpse in a driveway near Diamond is facing a new charge in Jasper County Circuit Court.

According to online court records, Chelsie Barry, 24, is charged with a felony of tampering with a vehicle, the vehicle that she and co-defendant Jared Prier, 29, Joplin, were using when the body was dumped.

She is being held on $5,000 bond on that charge and $50,000 bond on the abandonment of a corpse charge in Newton County.

Both Prier and the dead man, Dennis "Nathan" Meyer were members of the Joplin Honkies, a gang that has been involved with a series of crimes over the past several years in Jasper and Newton counties, according to authorities.