Following a Jan. 17 traffic stop on U.S. Highway 8 East, three Eagle River residents—Susan Cody, 74, Barry Clure, 69, and Patrick Menting, 63, face Class C felony drug charges in Oneida County for possession with intent to deliver over 100 grams of fentanyl, allegedly part of a Chicago-to-northern-Wisconsin trafficking ring.
The defendants confessed to traveling to Chicago on Jan. 16 to buy fentanyl/heroin. Cody admitted to a decade of Chicago purchases and selling fentanyl to Clure and Menting for 1.5 years. Menting admitted to contributing $320 to the $2,000 purchase and occasionally selling fentanyl, buying about eleven 0.5-gram bags weekly from Cody for a year and a half. Clure claimed the fentanyl found on him was payment for driving.
Seized fentanyl from all three totaled over 125 grams. Judge Mary Sowinski set a $500,000 cash bond and no-contact orders for all three. Initial appearances are scheduled for sometime this month.