RICE LAKE MAN GETS A DECADE IN PRISON ON METH
MAKING
WXCE Radio
Friday, May 14, 2004
A 35-year-old Rice Lake man will serve almost ten years in federal prison without the possibility of parole for the production of methamphetamine in four counties. Martin J. Applebee pled guilty to those charges in late February, and was sentenced last week in Federal Court in Madison by Judge John C. Shabaz. According to US Attorney JB VanHollen, Applebee’s prosecution was the result of an on-going investigation conducted by several agencies, including the Barron County Sheriff’s office, the West Central Drug Task Force and the State Department of Justice and their criminal narcotics bureau. Applebee is alleged to have produced meth in Barron, Dunn, Eau Claire and St. Croix Counties. He won’t be a free man again until the spring of 2014.
