MADISON, Wisconsin – A husband and wife from Wisconsin have both been ordered to federal prison for drug trafficking, as stated by Timothy M. O’Shea, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin.
Yelitzia Ortiz Chaparro, 29, was given a three-year prison term, while her husband, Emanuel Gonzalez, 25, was sentenced to eight years in federal prison.
On November 4, Gonzalez admitted he was guilty of having 500 grams or more of cocaine that he planned to sell. Ortiz Chaparro admitted guilt on November 6 to selling drugs.
From November 2022 to February 2023, Ortiz Chaparro sold cocaine three times to a person working with the Drug Enforcement Administration, amounting to 362 grams. On March 17, 2023, Gonzalez and Ortiz Chaparro worked together to bring a pound of metrh to the same location in Madison.
On May 9 and 15, 2024, Gonzalez sold 198 grams of cocaine to someone else. Then, on June 13, 2024, that person reached out to him to buy a pound of meth, which he brought later that day.
The second informant reached out to Gonzalez again to buy two ounces of cocaine, and 56 grams were brought that day in Madison.
A July 18, 2024, federal search order at the couple’s Madison home resulted in the seizure of a roughly one kilogram of cocaine and a loaded hand gun, along with over $18,000.
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