MONROE — Three rural Monroe residents face drug charges after police got a search warrant for their Town of Jordan residence on Oct. 21.

Hans L. Gehrmann, 27, Patrick A. F. Hoeper, 31, and Kevin D. Vukovich, 29, are charged in Green County Circuit Court with one felony count each of maintaining a drug-trafficking place and misdemeanor counts of possessing drug paraphernalia.

Vukovich also faces felony charges of possessing THC and cocaine as a repeat offender. He was convicted of similar charges in Dane County in 2012 and 2014.

Gehrmann and Hoeper, who do not have criminal convictions in Wisconsin, are charged with misdemeanor counts of possessing THC and cocaine.

According to the criminal complaint:

On Oct. 21, officers with the Stateline Area Narcotics Team (SLANT) came to get Gehrmann at his Town of Jordan home on an arrest warrant for charges filed the previous week alleging Gehrmann was using the rental property in the N4400 block of Klondike Road to deal marijuana in May.

Vukovich answered the door, and an officer “observed a strong odor of both fresh and burnt marijuana emitting from inside.” Vukovich explained he had just put some CBD cream on his hands, but the officer wasn’t buying it and told him nobody smokes CBD cream.

Vukovich replied, “What Hans does in his free time is what Hans does.”

Within about an hour, the SLANT officers had drafted a search warrant and started searching the home and two vans on the property. 

Hoeper told the officers he had been staying at the house about one week but did not actually live there.

The search turned up plates and straws with cocaine residue, a cannabis grinder, about two pounds of cannabis in a bag, pipes and other drug paraphernalia and a Pringles can with a “false compartment that contained capsules with an unknown white powdery substance and miscellaneous small baggies (containing) cocaine residue.”

All three defendants have signed $5,000 signature bonds and are due back in court in November for preliminary hearings.