A 26-year-old Waikiki man was charged Thursday with injecting a 14-year-old girl with hard drugs and causing her to overdose and be hospitalized.
Matthew Scott Kratz appeared in court Friday and was taken to the Oahu Community Correctional Center, where he remained unable to post $200,000 bail.
He was charged with four counts of promotion of a dangerous drug, two counts of methamphetamine trafficking and one count of endangering the welfare of a minor. The trafficking counts are both class A felonies, punishable by 20 years in prison.
According to court documents, the girl was a runaway staying in Kratz’s Waikiki apartment, at 2421 Ala Wai Blvd., between Oct. 4 and 7.
An ambulance took the girl to the Queen’s Medical Center for the overdose about 2:30 p.m. Oct. 7. That night, the girl’s mother reported to police that her daughter was drugged by a man named "Matt."
The results of a urine test showed the girl had four drugs in her system: methamphetamine, cocaine, oxycodone and marijuana.
Two days after the girl checked into the hospital, her mother called detectives to report that her daughter, who was still hospitalized, was stable enough to provide a statement. The girl wrote about her drug addiction and what happened when she was a runaway, staying with a man named "Matt." She said she let Matt inject her with illegal drugs and that he gave her methamphetamine, cocaine, oxycodone and marijuana.
The girl’s mother also gave police Matt’s address and phone number, which she received from a street source she cultivated. Police confirmed Kratz’s number, but his address was listed as on a neighbor island.
During a police interview, the girl picked Kratz’s photo out of a group of mug shots and identified him as "Matt," the man who gave her narcotics and "put the needle in her with the illegal drugs," court documents said.
Police went to Kratz’s Waikiki apartment and arrested him at 6:15 a.m. Monday.
On Tuesday, the girl’s mother filed a temporary restraining order against him.
Kratz has nine convictions dating to 2008, according to the state criminal database. The offenses are for petty misdemeanors or violations, such as liquor in public, theft, harassment, peddling, drugs and trespassing.