By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
A second member of a drug ring accused of distributing highly pure methamphetamine in Cowlitz and Lewis counties got a 10-year sentence today.
Randy Scott Chalupa, 47, of Kelso, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Tacoma for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
Michael J. Waddington, 24, of Silver Lake, received a similar sentence [1] on a similar charge in late December.
Toledo resident Anthony Wayne Reisbeck, described by the U.S. Attorney’s Office as the leader of the trafficking organization, is set to be sentenced later this month.
In his request for a sentence of more than 12 years for Chalupa, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Backhus noted Chalupa took over the operation after Reisbeck’s arrest and played a significant role, according to the U.S. Attorneys Office for Western Washington.
Read about Chalupa in The (Longview) Daily News here [2]