Four Oconto Falls residents pleaded not guilty last week to charges related to cooking methamphetamine in the back bedroom of an Oconto Falls trailer house.
Wendy S. Pogrant, 51, and her daughter, Ashley L. Van Norman, 22, pleaded not guilty to eight drug-related charges Thursday in Oconto County Circuit Court. Van Norman’s boyfriend, Nicholas R. Block, 28, and his brother, Joseph P. Anderson, 24, pleaded not guilty to eight and seven drug-related counts, respectively.
Each count carries a maximum penalty of 3 1/2 to 15 years of imprisonment and fines of $10,000 to $50,000.
A search warrant executed May 28 uncovered packaged meth, supplies used for manufacturing the drug, and drug paraphernalia at a trailer home where the four people and a child were living.
The criminal complaint states they started cooking meth in the middle of April, first on the Machickanee Trail. They transported it to the trailer to finish it. They also allegedly made meth on private land near U.S. Highway 41/141 five or six times and in the trailer house in Oconto Falls about six times.
The court modified Pogrant’s cash bond from $100,000 to $10,000. Van Norman’s bond remained at $100,000. Anderson and Block are being held on $150,000 bond.
Their pretrial conferences are Aug. 14.
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