Leader Staff
Two Bonduel men are facing felony drug charges after authorities busted an alleged marijuana operation in the town of Hartland on Tuesday.
John A. Rotter, 26, and Robert S. Rotter Jr., 27, were each charged with felony counts of manufacture and delivery of marijuana and maintaining a drug trafficking place.
John Rotter faces an additional felony count of second or subsequent possession of marijuana. Both are also charged with a misdemeanor count of possessing drug paraphernalia.
Each of the felony charges carry a maximum possible penalty of 3 1/2 years in prison and $10,000 fine if convicted.
Shawano County sheriff’s detectives and Bonduel police executed a search warrant at the Rotter residence Tuesday.
According to the criminal complaint, authorities seized 127 separate items, including a portable grow room, books on growing marijuana, stems and other pieces of marijuana plants, four bags of marijuana plant material each labeled with different names, seed packets, plant drying paraphernalia, various drug paraphernalia, $400 in currency, brass knuckles and a knife.
There was also one marijuana plant found growing in a pot, according to the complaint.
The complaint also states John Rotter told authorities the marijuana was for personal use and that he had purchased a lot of it at one time because it was cheaper that way.
Both men had their initial appearances in Shawano-Menominee County Circuit Court on Thursday. There was no additional information available Thursday afternoon.