Sheboygan, WI(WHBL) - The arrest of 53-year-old Kimberly J Wenzel at her Indiana Avenue apartment was months in the making. A criminal complaint filed in Sheboygan County court cites a high volume of traffic seen going to and from Wenzel’s apartment in the months leading up to her arrest.
The case began to build back on April 16, 2015. That’s when a confidential informant working with the Sheboygan County MEG unit initiated a heroin purchase from a man identified as Jeffery Lathon. Detectives were investigating Lathon for allegedly dealing heroin in the Sheboygan area. Contact was made with Lathon, who reportedly stated that he would be in Sheboygan on Friday, April 17.
Investigators were again listening-in on Friday, April 17 when the informant and Lathon agreed to meet for the alleged drug deal. That is when Lathon implicated Kimberly Wenzel as a party to the drug trafficking, by telling the informant to meet him where they always meet - which was Kimberly’s apartment.
The informant was wired with recording devices and entered the apartment where the drug deal allegedly transpired in the presence of Kimberly.
Kimberly reportedly told the informant that she was starting to get headaches from the high volume of traffic coming to and from her apartment, in particular from someone wanting to buy an “8 ball” of product, which refers to 1/8 ounce. She is heard telling the informant that she had to wait for Lathon in order to deliver that amount of heroin.
Wenzel is charged with felony counts of manufacturing and delivering heroin, and maintaining a drug trafficking place. She could face nearly 20 years in prison on the combined charges, if convicted.