Last week, in the 41st Circuit Court, the Honorable Mary B. Barglind sentenced 25-year-old Taylor John Baxter of Menominee to five and one-half years to 20 years in prison for Controlled Substance – Delivery of Methamphetamine. The case began on March 9th, 2022, when a confidential informant of the Menominee County/City Wide Drug Team reported to the Menominee County Sheriff’s Office that they purchased 1 gram of methamphetamine from Baxter at Baxter’s place of employment, Holy Smokes Tobacco Shop, in Menominee, for $120. Menominee County Prosecuting Attorney Jeffrey Rogg says, “he has had multiple opportunities, nine, for drug treatment, so to suggest that he is merely an addict is not accurate.”
Rogg says, “based on the repetitive nature of his illegal actions, and his obvious lack of potential for rehabilitation, a stern prison sentence is the only way to protect the public from this predator.”
Baxter is now convicted of his third felony for selling drugs in the Menominee community, and he has a fourth alleged sale case pending in Wisconsin. Rogg says, “most discouraging is the fact that Mr. Baxter sold methamphetamine at issue here on the very same day he reported to his Parole Agent for a case for which he was already on parole.”
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