OCONTO, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — An Oconto man found guilty in a drug overdose death, received his sentence Thursday.
Jason T. Lipp, 36, was sentenced to 11.5 years in prison and 10 years of extended supervision.
According to prosecutors, on Aug. 2, 2020, Oconto police officers were called to an apartment building for a report of a 54-year-old man found unconscious by his son. The son told police his father had arranged to get heroin from Lipp earlier in the day and he came by to check on his father as his father had not contacted him.
An autopsy found the cause of death was a “mixed drug (heroin, fentanyl, methamphetamine, duloxetine, zolpidem) intoxication.”
Further investigation found that the victim traded prescription medication with Lipp for the heroin.
After his father’s body was found, investigators later learned the son removed the heroin from the scene and later traded it for methamphetamine. The son died a few months later.
Lipp was arrested on April 19, 2021 and a search warrant was executed at his residence. Police say a large amount of drug paraphernalia was found, including four separate chunks of heroin.
During Lipp’s trial held in April of 2023, two individuals testified that they had overdosed on heroin delivered by Lipp. One of the individuals was warned by Lipp that the substance he gave him had just killed a man in Oconto.
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