Leader Staff
The last of three family members charged in connection with a marijuana operation in Wescott was sentenced Wednesday to five months in jail as a condition of two years’ probation.
William R. Himebauch, 63, previously pleaded no contest to felony counts of maintaining a drug trafficking place and manufacture and delivery of marijuana.
His wife, Lynn Himebauch, 67, and their daughter, Nicole H. Himebauch, 33, pleaded no contest to the same charges and were each given the same sentence in October.
According to the criminal complaint, Nicole Himebauch was the suspect in a controlled marijuana buy with a confidential Shawano County Sheriff’s Department informant on Feb. 5, 2013, at a residence attached to the Classic’s Restaurant and Lounge in Wescott.
The family owns the supper club.
The informant told authorities Nicole Himebauch had gotten the marijuana from her parents’ residence, according to the complaint.
Shawano County Sheriff’s Department deputies executed a search warrant at the residence and arrested Nicole Himebauch on felony charges of manufacture and delivery of marijuana, maintaining a drug trafficking place and possession with intent to deliver marijuana.
Deputies also executed a search warrant in the town of Richmond home of her parents, who were taken into custody on the same felony counts.
According to the criminal complaint, a converted room in the upstairs of the Richmond residence contained numerous marijuana plants, along with equipment to trim, grow, clean and clone new plants. A second grow room was found in the basement, according to the complaint.
Authorities seized 87 plants from the residence, according to court records.