MONROE - A Monroe man who told a deputy last August that he was homeless, jobless and needed structure after being incarcerated was sentenced last week back to prison.
Justin Wendall Young, 28, was ordered in Green County Circuit Court to serve three years in prison and two years on parole for a repeat conviction of possessing marijuana.
Young was arrested during a traffic stop last August in the Town of Spring Grove. Deputies reported finding 22 grams of hash oil in a plastic cylinder in the center console of the 1999 Saturn, along with drug paraphernalia suspected of being used to ingest marijuana and heroin.
Young was traveling with two passengers, according to police reports. One of the passengers, Megan Leigh Norton, 22, Mount Horeb, is facing related misdemeanor charges of possessing marijuana, drug paraphernalia, a controlled substance and an illegally obtained prescription. She has a plea and sentencing hearing Nov. 30.
She and Young were taken to the Monroe Clinic ER for medical clearance before jail. She told deputies Young had given her a package of some drug, possibly cocaine, to swallow as deputies were pulling them over.
In the ER, Young "promptly fell asleep" on an examination bed, then "drifted in and out of consciousness, mumbling numerous times about a Chris near Beloit who had sold them drugs," a deputy wrote in his report. Medical staff had to use a catheter to get a urine sample from Young for a drug test.
Later, when Young was more alert, he "complained bitterly" to a deputy that when he was released from the Wisconsin prison system he had only $10 to his name, no car and no place to live. Young said he had been sleeping in Twining Park in Monroe until police kicked him out.
Young expressed desire for structure in his life, saying a work-release program with regular drug testing would benefit him, according to the deputy's report.
Court records show a lengthy criminal record for Young, including convictions of theft, battery, burglary, disorderly conduct, bail jumping and criminal damage to property.
Justin Wendall Young, 28, was ordered in Green County Circuit Court to serve three years in prison and two years on parole for a repeat conviction of possessing marijuana.
Young was arrested during a traffic stop last August in the Town of Spring Grove. Deputies reported finding 22 grams of hash oil in a plastic cylinder in the center console of the 1999 Saturn, along with drug paraphernalia suspected of being used to ingest marijuana and heroin.
Young was traveling with two passengers, according to police reports. One of the passengers, Megan Leigh Norton, 22, Mount Horeb, is facing related misdemeanor charges of possessing marijuana, drug paraphernalia, a controlled substance and an illegally obtained prescription. She has a plea and sentencing hearing Nov. 30.
She and Young were taken to the Monroe Clinic ER for medical clearance before jail. She told deputies Young had given her a package of some drug, possibly cocaine, to swallow as deputies were pulling them over.
In the ER, Young "promptly fell asleep" on an examination bed, then "drifted in and out of consciousness, mumbling numerous times about a Chris near Beloit who had sold them drugs," a deputy wrote in his report. Medical staff had to use a catheter to get a urine sample from Young for a drug test.
Later, when Young was more alert, he "complained bitterly" to a deputy that when he was released from the Wisconsin prison system he had only $10 to his name, no car and no place to live. Young said he had been sleeping in Twining Park in Monroe until police kicked him out.
Young expressed desire for structure in his life, saying a work-release program with regular drug testing would benefit him, according to the deputy's report.
Court records show a lengthy criminal record for Young, including convictions of theft, battery, burglary, disorderly conduct, bail jumping and criminal damage to property.