Teh One Who Knocks
03-17-2017, 10:56 AM
By Mike Longaecker | Forum News Service
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ELLSWORTH, Wis. — A gas station just paces away from Pierce County’s law enforcement center might not be the most inconspicuous place for a drug deal, but prosecutors allege that’s just what a trio of teens did last week.
The young men were flanked by officers — including a nine-year veteran of the St. Croix Valley Drug Task Force pumping gas into his squad car — who watched them make the sale of a quarter-pound of marijuana on March 9, according to charges filed in the case.
Investigation of the case led investigators to Plum City High School, where a student there allegedly admitted to being behind the sale.
The Pierce County Attorney’s Office charged Ellsworth resident Desmond T. Trok, 18; Knapp resident Matthew P. Jones, 18; and Menomonie resident Trace Schofield, 17, with delivering THC, a felony. No charges had yet been filed against the Plum City student and it wasn’t clear Monday if the case received a juvenile referral.
According to criminal complaints:
Pierce County sheriff’s investigator Marty Shepler was pumping gas into his squad car at 11:55 a.m. when he saw what looked like a drug deal in the nearby parking lot.
He watched a brown vehicle back into a parking stall next to a white vehicle.
On the other side of the brown vehicle was a Department of Natural Resources warden’s patrol truck.
The warden happened to be walking out of the neighboring Pierce County Sheriff’s Office with another deputy during the drug deal. They called it in to dispatchers, who seconds later were alerted by Shepler of the same thing.
Shepler and the deputy, Robbie Jaeger, connected over their radios and formulated a plan to conduct a traffic stop on the two vehicles.
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ELLSWORTH, Wis. — A gas station just paces away from Pierce County’s law enforcement center might not be the most inconspicuous place for a drug deal, but prosecutors allege that’s just what a trio of teens did last week.
The young men were flanked by officers — including a nine-year veteran of the St. Croix Valley Drug Task Force pumping gas into his squad car — who watched them make the sale of a quarter-pound of marijuana on March 9, according to charges filed in the case.
Investigation of the case led investigators to Plum City High School, where a student there allegedly admitted to being behind the sale.
The Pierce County Attorney’s Office charged Ellsworth resident Desmond T. Trok, 18; Knapp resident Matthew P. Jones, 18; and Menomonie resident Trace Schofield, 17, with delivering THC, a felony. No charges had yet been filed against the Plum City student and it wasn’t clear Monday if the case received a juvenile referral.
According to criminal complaints:
Pierce County sheriff’s investigator Marty Shepler was pumping gas into his squad car at 11:55 a.m. when he saw what looked like a drug deal in the nearby parking lot.
He watched a brown vehicle back into a parking stall next to a white vehicle.
On the other side of the brown vehicle was a Department of Natural Resources warden’s patrol truck.
The warden happened to be walking out of the neighboring Pierce County Sheriff’s Office with another deputy during the drug deal. They called it in to dispatchers, who seconds later were alerted by Shepler of the same thing.
Shepler and the deputy, Robbie Jaeger, connected over their radios and formulated a plan to conduct a traffic stop on the two vehicles.