FOND DU LAC, WI (WTAQ) – A Fond du Lac woman was convicted on Thursday for her role in allowing cocaine and crack cocaine to be sold inside her home.
37-year-old Lashonda Cruckson was convicted of conspiracy to manufacture/deliver cocaine in excess of 40 grams and maintaining a drug trafficking place.
She’s considered to be part of a much larger cocaine conspiracy, 127 pounds of cocaine and crack cocaine have been distributed in the Fond du Lac community.
Cruckson’s involvement began in February of 2018 when she allowed leaders, Danny Andrews and Nicole Nunez, to stay in her Boardman Street home, according to the criminal complaint.
Cruckson told investigators that when she went to the home she started noticing large amounts of people in the basement and scattered throughout the house using narcotics, but she wouldn’t stay at the home often.
The criminal complaint reads that Cruckson told investigators she saw on occasion “large gallon size bags containing baseball-sized individually packaged crack cocaine and powder cocaine” and “large amounts of cash,” inside the home.
Cruckson said Andrews gave her a half of a gram to one gram of crack cocaine per week for allowing them to stay at her house, the criminal complaint says.
Cruckson is the first person in the conspiracy to have gone to trial and is the second person convicted.
She faces more than 25 years in prison.
