Sauk County drug trafficker has been sentenced

SAUK COUNTY, WIS. (CIVIC MEDIA) – A Sauk County drug trafficker has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for one of the largest local cocaine seizures in decades. Sauk County District Attorney Michael Albrecht announced the sentencing of Jaoshua Alberto Vargas-Sanchez, 29 of Reedsburg, to a 25-year split sentence in the Wisconsin State Prison System for his role in trafficking cocaine from Puerto Rico into Sauk County. The sentence consists of 15 years of initial confinement followed by 10 years of extended supervision in Sauk County.

Vargas-Sanchez pled guilty to Commit Possession with Intent to Deliver Cocaine, Second or Subsequent Offense, a Class C felony and the highest-level drug trafficking crime in Wisconsin. Evidence showed Vargas-Sanchez was not a user of cocaine and imported these dangerous drugs to the area purely to supplement his own income. The investigation, led by the Sauk County Drug Task Force and U.S. Postal Inspectors resulted in the interception of a package containing over one kilogram of cocaine, representing an estimated $100,000 in street value. This seizure represents one of the largest quantities of cocaine intercepted in Sauk County in the past 25 years.

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