SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (WHBL) - A Sheboygan woman accused of running a high-volume drug house may be reaching a plea deal with prosecutors.
53-year-old Kimberly Wenzel faces one count each of delivery and manufacture of heroin and maintaining a drug trafficking place. A plea hearing has now been scheduled for August 8th.
Wenzel was originally arrested back in November of 2015 in a case that had been building up since April. 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 April 17.
Investigators were again listening-in on April 17 when the informant and Lathon agreed to meet for the alleged drug deal. That is when Lathon implicated Wenzel as a party to the drug trafficking, by telling the informant to meet him where they always meet - which was Wenzel’s apartment. The informant was wired with recording devices and entered the apartment where the drug deal allegedly transpired in the presence of Wenzel.
Wenzel 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.
There's no word on what that plea deal might entail. Wenzel could face nearly 20 years in prison on the combined charges, if convicted. She remains free on a $5,000 cash bond.