(WFRV) – A 32-year-old Wisconsin woman was sentenced to six years in prison on Thursday by U.S. District Judge William Conley for conspiring to distribute at least 50 grams of meth.
According to Timothy M. O’Shea, the United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, Mercadys Perkins of Weston pled guilty to the charge on January 21, and will also spend five years on supervised release.
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Investigators with the Central Wisconsin Narcotics Task Force in early 2024 began an investigation into a group that was trafficking high quantities of meth in Marathon County, with Perkins identified as one of the distributors.
In March and April 2024, she sold meth to an informant on three occasions, with the highest amount of 230 grams. On April 16, a search warrant at her house revealed over 300 grams of meth, $2,000 and other drug paraphernalia. Perkins subsequently confessed to trafficking.
More details arose, revealing that between February 18 and April 12 in 2024, a co-conspirator provided her and another person about 16 pounds of meth and another six ounces of cocaine for distribution.
Perkins at the time was on a state probation for a prior meth possession conviction while out on bond in four other open cases, most involving meth trafficking incidents, and her state probation was revoked as she was sentenced to two years in state prison.
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Judge Conley highlihgted the serious conduct but also factored in her addiction as a mitigating factor in the federal sentence, which he ordered to run concurrently with her state sentence.
There are three co-defendants who pled guilty to in this drug trafficking conspiracy, who will be sentenced in the near future.
