Brown County drug trafficking suspect Felton Currie. (Photo source: Brown County Jail)
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — Sentencing for the ringleader of a large-scale drug operation — one of more than 45 people charged — was delayed Monday due to an error in the presentence report.
The new date is next Monday.
Felton Currie was convicted of 15 charges for the Chicago-to-Green Bay operation, including 10 charges of fentanyl delivery, plus counts for cocaine and meth delivery, as well as maintaining a drug trafficking place.
In court Monday, Judge Samantha Wagner said the presentence investigation — a background document created by the Department of Corrections to aide at sentencing — didn’t consider one of the counts.
Defense attorney John Carroll said he wanted the PSI to account for all of the charges and asked for it to be revised.
Deputy District Attorney Wendy Lemkuil agreed, noting the count was for possession of a half-pound of fentanyl.
At a news conference last July, police said the arrests were the culmination of a six-month investigation. The suspects allegedly were involved in trafficking drugs from Chicago to Northeast Wisconsin. Initially, seven people were arrested but prosecutors have said that number has grown to more than 40 defendants.
Five search warrants were executed in Brown County earlier in July. A simultaneous search of the stash house in Chicago yielded 12 kilograms (26 pounds) of fentanyl, four kilograms (nine pounds) of cocaine, 748 grams (1.6 pounds) of meth, 460 grams (one pound) of heroin, 16 guns and some marijuana.
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