A 37-year-old western Wisconsin man has pleaded guilty to cashing bad checks totaling more than $30,000 and dealing in meth.
Wisconsin man admits to passing bad checks, dealing meth
April 28, 2008 at 5:14PM
Christopher D. Bierbrauer, of New Richmond, Wis., pleaded guilty last week in federal court in St. Paul. He could be sentenced to up to 30 years in prison on the fraudulent check charge and up to life in prison on the drug charge.
Bierbrauer's plea agreement notes two times when he used the names of two men to cash bad checks, one for $15,006 at a bank in November 2005, and another time in February 2006.
In December 2005, he unlawfully possessed a Dish Network bill from a Woodbury resident.
On the drug charge, Bierbrauer conspired with another person to distribute more than 500 grams of a substance "containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine," the U.S. attorney's office for Minnesota said in a news release today. Bierbrauer obtained more than 1.5 kilos of meth from various suppliers in Minnesota and elsewhere and distributed it for profit.
Kelly M. Jacob, 35, of New Richmond, pleaded guilty April 10 to conspiracy to distribute and possess meth.
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