By Katjusa Cisar
kcisar@themonroetimes.net
DARLINGTON - A Shullsburg woman and her juvenile son face charges in Lafayette County Circuit Court alleging they were dealing pot out of their home on South Judgement Street.
Amy Elizabeth Mesch, 40, was charged Feb. 12 with a Class I felony count of maintaining a drug-trafficking place and a Class H felony count of intentionally contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Her initial appearance is March 12.
Her juvenile son faces a charge of possessing more than 200 and up to 1,000 grams of marijuana with intent to deliver, according to court documents. (One thousand grams is about 2.2 pounds.) Juvenile criminal cases are not typically public record.
The cases against Mesch and her son began with an anonymous tip Dec. 22 to the Shullsburg Police Department that the juvenile was "dealing marijuana to underage kids" at his home in the 300 block of South Judgement Street.
According to the criminal complaint against Mesch:
A police officer staked out the residence and "noticed several vehicles parked in the driveway for a short period of time." The vehicles would leave about 15 minutes after arriving.
On Jan. 5 and again on Jan. 11, police looked through trash outside the home and found small and large plastic bags "with green leafy residue," sandwich bags missing the corner, baggies with a brown or black residue, letters addressed to Mesch, a broken glass pipe and about 7.8 grams of marijuana.
On Jan. 11, a confidential source told police they had been inside Mesch's home and observed several high school-aged teens smoking marijuana.
Police executed a search warrant on the home the next day. A search of the juvenile's bedroom turned up $3,772 in cash, about two-thirds of a pound of marijuana, four smoking devices, two metal marijuana grinders and HappySticks-brand vape pens containing indica-strain cannabis.
Mesch told police all of the money in her son's room belonged to him and there should be about $900 that he got for Christmas. She said she knew her son used marijuana but did not know he was selling it.
The son confirmed to police that he sold marijuana, buying about two-thirds of a pound at a time and selling it off to his friends from Shullsburg and the surrounding area.
kcisar@themonroetimes.net
DARLINGTON - A Shullsburg woman and her juvenile son face charges in Lafayette County Circuit Court alleging they were dealing pot out of their home on South Judgement Street.
Amy Elizabeth Mesch, 40, was charged Feb. 12 with a Class I felony count of maintaining a drug-trafficking place and a Class H felony count of intentionally contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Her initial appearance is March 12.
Her juvenile son faces a charge of possessing more than 200 and up to 1,000 grams of marijuana with intent to deliver, according to court documents. (One thousand grams is about 2.2 pounds.) Juvenile criminal cases are not typically public record.
The cases against Mesch and her son began with an anonymous tip Dec. 22 to the Shullsburg Police Department that the juvenile was "dealing marijuana to underage kids" at his home in the 300 block of South Judgement Street.
According to the criminal complaint against Mesch:
A police officer staked out the residence and "noticed several vehicles parked in the driveway for a short period of time." The vehicles would leave about 15 minutes after arriving.
On Jan. 5 and again on Jan. 11, police looked through trash outside the home and found small and large plastic bags "with green leafy residue," sandwich bags missing the corner, baggies with a brown or black residue, letters addressed to Mesch, a broken glass pipe and about 7.8 grams of marijuana.
On Jan. 11, a confidential source told police they had been inside Mesch's home and observed several high school-aged teens smoking marijuana.
Police executed a search warrant on the home the next day. A search of the juvenile's bedroom turned up $3,772 in cash, about two-thirds of a pound of marijuana, four smoking devices, two metal marijuana grinders and HappySticks-brand vape pens containing indica-strain cannabis.
Mesch told police all of the money in her son's room belonged to him and there should be about $900 that he got for Christmas. She said she knew her son used marijuana but did not know he was selling it.
The son confirmed to police that he sold marijuana, buying about two-thirds of a pound at a time and selling it off to his friends from Shullsburg and the surrounding area.