ANTHONY PETER LIPPERT
By LeAnn R. Ralph
MENOMONIE — A former Boyceville man for whom online court records list a current address as the Redgranite Correctional Institute has been charged in Dunn County with delivery of methamphetamine and maintaining a drug trafficking place.
Anthony P. Lippert, 40, made an initial appearance in Dunn County Circuit Court by video on October 12 with his attorney Francis Rivard.
Lippert is charged with one felony county of manufacturing or delivering methamphetamine with a “repeater” modifier and one felony count of maintaining a drug trafficking place with a repeater modifier.
Judge Rod Smeltzer set bail with a $500 signature bond concurrent with the bail set in another Dunn County case in which Lippert is charged with election fraud.
Lippert is scheduled for another court hearing December 28.
According to the criminal complaint, a Dunn County investigator was contacted by two confidential informants in February of this year who said they were able to purchase methamphetamine from Anthony Lippert at his residence located at 1020 Main Street in Boyceville.
The investigator met with the two CI and provided them with $120 of prerecorded West Central Drug Task Force buy funds and then equipped one of the informants with audio and video body wires.
Both of the informants arrived at Lippert’s residence at shortly after 1 p.m. They completed their transaction and then met with the investigator again. The informants told the investigator Lippert had gotten the methamphetamine from a back bedroom while they waited in the kitchen, according to the complaint.
Both of the informants completed a voluntary statement indicating Lippert had sold CI No. 2 $120 worth of methamphetamine. Both of the informants also indicated they knew it was Lippert because they had met through a mutual friend, the complaint states.
The investigator reviewed the video surveillance and identified the man who handed the suspected methamphetamine to the informant as Lippert.
The methamphetamine the informant had purchased weighed 3.2 grams and tested positive for methamphetamine when the investigator conducted a field test, according to the complaint.
Lippert qualifies as a repeat offender since he was convicted in May of 2019 of a felony retail theft of items valued at $500 to $5,000 in a Dunn County case. Lippert qualifies as subsequent offender since he was convicted in May of 2016 of possession of methamphetamine in a Chippewa County case, according to the complaint.
Delivery of methamphetamine second and subsequent offense is a Class E felony that carries a possible penalty, upon conviction, of a fine of up to $50,000 and/or 15 years in prison.
The repeater provision can increase the prison sentence by up to two years for prior convictions of misdemeanors and by up to six years if the prior conviction was a felony.
The court may also suspend the defendant’s driver’s license by no less than six months and no more than five years. If the driving privileges are already suspended, additional suspension must be served consecutively.
Maintaining a drug trafficking place is a Class I felony that carries a possible penalty, upon conviction, of a fine of up to $10,000 and/or three years and six months in prison.
Under the repeater provision, in connection with the conviction of felony retail theft, the prison term can be extended by not more than four years for the felony conviction and not more than two years if the conviction was a misdemeanor.
