{"id":275456,"date":"2010-02-04T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=15794"},"modified":"2010-02-04T08:00:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T13:00:25","slug":"fifteenth-defendant-sentenced-in-tribal-drug-investigation-in-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/275456","title":{"rendered":"Fifteenth defendant sentenced in tribal drug investigation in Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"

MADISON, WI — Stephen P. Sinnott, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Steven R. Lang, 30, Webster, Wis., was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Madison by Chief U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb for his role in distributing methamphetamine on St. Croix tribal lands from approximately 2005 to 2008. Chief Judge Crabb sentenced Lang to four years in prison without parole.<\/p>\n

With today\u2019s sentencing, 15 defendants have now been sentenced as a result of this investigation into drug dealing on St. Croix tribal lands.<\/p>\n

The previous defendants sentenced are set forth below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Joseph Merrill<\/td>\nDistribution of Crack Cocaine<\/td>\n4 years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Manley L. Williams<\/td>\nDistribution of Crack Cocaine<\/td>\n8 years, 4 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Christifer Sonnenberg<\/td>\nDistribution of Crack Cocaine<\/td>\n5 years, 6 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jean Sonnenberg<\/td>\nConspiracy to Distribute Crack Cocaine<\/td>\n19 years, 7 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bruce Sonnenberg<\/td>\nConspiracy to Distribute Crack Cocaine<\/td>\n24 years, 4 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Amanda Sonnenberg<\/td>\nDistribution of Crack Cocaine<\/td>\n3 years, 10 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
George Rainey<\/td>\nDistribution of Crack Cocaine<\/td>\n14 years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bruce Rainey<\/td>\nDistribution of Crack Cocaine<\/td>\n17 years, 6 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Diana Martin<\/td>\nConspiracy to Distribute Crack Cocaine<\/td>\n9 years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Margrette Cobb<\/td>\nConspiracy to Distribute Crack Cocaine<\/td>\n13 years, 4 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Andrew Sonnenberg<\/td>\nDistribution of Crack Cocaine<\/td>\n17 years, 6 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ericka J. Reynolds<\/td>\nConspiracy to Distribute Crack Cocaine<\/td>\n1 year, 6 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shaleah Reynolds<\/td>\nDistribution of Crack Cocaine<\/td>\n2 years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michael D. Hammond<\/td>\nDistribution of Crack Cocaine<\/td>\n12 years, 7 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

United States Attorney Sinnott stated that today\u2019s sentencing was the result of a long-term investigation being conducted by the Wisconsin Department of Justice, Division of Criminal Investigation; Federal Bureau of Investigation; St. Croix Tribal Police Department; Rice Lake Police Department; Barron County Sheriff’s Department; Burnett County Sheriff’s Department; Sawyer County Sheriff\u2019s Department; Polk County Sheriff’s Department; the Native American Drug & Gang Initiative; and Wisconsin State Patrol.<\/p>\n

As set out above, 15 defendants have now been convicted of federal drug offenses as a result of this investigation.<\/p>\n

Four additional defendants have pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing; six additional defendants were indicted on December 2, 2009, and are awaiting trial.<\/p>\n

Assistant U.S. Attorney John W. Vaudreuil is handling the prosecution of these cases.<\/p>\n

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MADISON, WI — Stephen P. Sinnott, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Steven R. Lang, 30, Webster, Wis., was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Madison by Chief U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb for his role in distributing methamphetamine on St. Croix tribal lands from approximately 2005 to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}