CHIPPEWA FALLS — An Eau Claire man has been sentenced to 10 years in jail, together with one other 10 years of prolonged supervision, after he was convicted of a number of drug offenses.
James T. Shafer, 33, who used to dwell at a house on Franklin Avenue, was convicted in Chippewa County Courtroom of 1 depend of possession of meth, and one other depend of producing with the intent to ship amphetamines. Wisconsin court docket information present that this was the ninth time that Shafer has been convicted for possession of methamphetamine prior to now decade.
On Thursday, Choose Benjamin Lane ordered the prolonged jail time period, and made it concurrent to a jail sentence Shafer is already serving. Shafer is incarcerated within the Jackson Correctional Establishment and appeared in court docket by way of video from the jail.
As phrases of his prolonged probation, Shafer can’t have any contact with a number of victims, and he can’t eat, possess, purchase, promote or carry alcohol or unlawful medication or drug paraphernalia.
Shafer should take part in therapy applications set by his probation agent. He should pay $1,076 in court docket prices and fines and he should submit a DNA pattern.
In accordance with the felony criticism, an officer used a confidential informant to make a managed purchase of meth from Shafer on April 18, 2024, at a house in Chippewa Falls.
“The sandwich bag of white crystal substance that [the confidential informant] turned over the investigators weighed 59.74 grams inclusive of bag weight and area examined presumptively optimistic for the presence of methamphetamine,” the felony criticism reads.
Together with this case, Shafer additionally has an unresolved case in Eau Claire County Courtroom, the place he’s charged with sustaining a drug trafficking place and possession of meth. He’s slated to return to that court docket on Sept. 10.
Shafer has been convicted in 15 completely different felony instances in Wisconsin since 2016, on-line court docket information present. Shafer’s most up-to-date conviction was for possession of stolen property in Chippewa County Courtroom in 2023. Together with these eight prior meth possession convictions, he additionally has beforehand been convicted of theft of movable property, fleeing or eluding an officer, and bail leaping.