MADISON, Wis. (WFRV) – A husband and wife in Wisconsin were both sentenced to federal prison time for drug trafficking charges, according to Timothy M. O’Shea, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin.
29-year-old Yelitzia Ortiz Chaparro and her husband, 25-year-old Emanuel Gonzalez were sentenced to three years and eight years in federal prison, respectively.
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Gonzalez pled guilty on November 4 to a charge of possession of 500 grams or more of cocaine with intent to distribute. Ortiz Chaparro pled guilty on Novemeber 6 to methamphetamine distribution.
Between November 2022 and February 2023, Ortiz Chaparro sold cocaine to a source working with the Drug Enforcement Administration three times totaling up to 362 grams. Gonzalez and Ortiz Chaparro worked together on March 17, 2023 to deliver a pound of metrh to the same source in Madison.
On May 9 and 15, 2024, Gonzalez sold 198 grams of cocaine to a second source, and on June 13, 2024, the source contacted him to purchase another pound of meth which was delivered later that day.
The second confidential source contacted Gonzalez again for a purchase of two ounces of cocaine, and 56 grams were delivered that day in Madison.
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A July 18, 2024, federal search warrant at the couple’s Madison home resulted in the seizure of a roughly one kilogram of cocaine and a loaded hand gun, along with over $18,000.
No more details were provided.
