威斯康星州男子保释期间继续贩毒被判10年：家中搜出近200克毒品与楼梯暗格
美国威斯康星州马拉松县 Weston 市39岁男子 Mark Wortham，近日在联邦法院被判处10年监禁，罪名是持有50克以上冰毒意图分销并维持一处贩毒场所。判决由首席联邦地区法官 James D. Peterson 作出，威斯康星西区联邦检察官 Chadwick M. Elgersma 公布了判决结果。Wortham 已于2026年8月26日认罪。
据检方说明，2025年5月至11月，Wortham 在一桩州级贩毒案候判期间保释在外，却从自己在 Wausau 的住所先后五次向一名线人出售毒品。执法人员后来搜查其住所，在卧室搜出近200克各类受管制药物、5,000多美元现金、一台电子秤、吸毒用具，以及楼梯里的一处隐藏储物格。Wortham 承认近期买入过5磅冰毒。他还为入狱后毒品生意如何继续运转预先做了接续安排。
法官 Peterson 在量刑时认定，本案的加重情节重于从轻情节：Wortham 不只是零售层面的毒贩，出售的毒品数量大，有贩毒前科，还曾对一名毒品买家怀恨报复。
本案由联邦调查局 FBI 中威斯康星毒品专案组、缉毒局 DEA、威斯康星州司法部刑事调查局、Wausau 警察局、马拉松县警长办公室等多家机构联合调查，助理联邦检察官 Steven Ayala 负责起诉。（来源：美国司法部）
Wisconsin Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Drug Trafficking While Out on Bond in State Case
Mark Wortham, 39, of Weston, a city in Marathon County, Wisconsin, was sentenced last week by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 10 years in federal prison for possessing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine intended for distribution and maintaining a drug trafficking premises. Chadwick M. Elgersma, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced the sentence. Wortham pleaded guilty to the charges on August 26, 2026.
From May through November 2025, while out of custody on bond awaiting sentencing in a state drug trafficking case, Wortham sold drugs to an informant on five occasions from his house in Wausau. When law enforcement later searched the house, they found nearly 200 grams of various controlled substances in his bedroom, over $5,000 in cash, a digital scale, drug paraphernalia, and a hidden storage compartment in his staircase. Wortham admitted to recently having purchased five pounds of methamphetamine. He also maintained a succession plan for continued drug dealing when he went to prison.
At sentencing, Judge Peterson found the aggravating facts outweighed the mitigating facts, noting that Wortham was more than a retail drug dealer, sold high quantities of drugs, had a history of drug trafficking, and had behaved vindictively in seeking retribution against a drug customer.
The charges resulted from an investigation by the FBI's Central Wisconsin Narcotics Task Force, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the Wisconsin Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation, the Wausau Police Department, the Marathon County Sheriff's Office, and other agencies. Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Ayala prosecuted the case. (Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
来源：美国司法部
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图片来源：图：美国司法部总部大楼（联邦固定图库）。 / Photo: U.S. Department of Justice headquarters building (federal asset library).
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