MADISON, Wis. — An Arizona woman was sentenced to 30 months in prison for mailing meth, according to officials.
According to a news release from the Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office of Western District of Wisconsin, Krista Sparks, 28, from Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for trafficking methamphetamine and money laundering. The DOJ said that Sparks pleaded guilty to the charges back on May 24.
Sparks was working with her boyfriend, Levi Bagne, and other people to mail and transport meth, according to KTVK. On both November 12, 2019, and February 15, 2020, Sparks mailed packages of meth from California to a codefendant named Cory Freyermuth in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
The DOJ said that those two packages were seized by law enforcement officials and those packages were searched. Both packages had a total of six pounds of meth inside.
During the investigation, Sparks used her bank accounts as well as her mother’s bank accounts to launder money from the drug sales for Bagne, according to the DOJ. Once the meth was sold in Wisconsin, Freyermuth put the cashier’s checks into Sparks’ and Bagne’s bank accounts. Sparks set up those accounts and took out the money.
According to KTVK, six people in total pleaded guilty to participating in the meth distribution scheme.
The DOJ said that the charges against Sparks were part of a joint investigation from the Central Wisconsin Narcotics Task Force, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Lake Winnebago Area Metropolitan unit, and Merrill Police Department. The investigation was funded by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, whom the DOJ said is a multi-agency task force that coordinates long-term narcotic trafficking investigations such as this one.
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