{"id":4629,"date":"2011-01-21T20:50:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T04:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=4629"},"modified":"2011-01-21T20:50:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T04:50:27","slug":"man-who-took-over-after-meth-ring-leader-from-toledo-was-arrested-gets-10-years-feds-announce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=4629","title":{"rendered":"Man who took over after meth ring leader from Toledo was arrested gets 10 years, feds announce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A second member of a drug ring accused of distributing highly pure methamphetamine in Cowlitz and Lewis counties got a 10-year sentence today.<\/p>\n<p>Randy Scott Chalupa, 47, of Kelso, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Tacoma for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p>Michael J. Waddington, 24, of Silver Lake, received a <a title=\"&quot;Cowlitz County man gets 10 years for his role in meth ring with ties to Toledo&quot; from Thursday Dec. 30, 2010\" href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=4190\" target=\"_blank\">similar sentence<\/a> on a similar charge in late December.<\/p>\n<p>Toledo resident Anthony Wayne Reisbeck, described by the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office as the leader of the trafficking organization, is set to be sentenced later this month.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s arrest and played a significant role, according to the U.S. Attorneys Office for Western Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Read about Chalupa in The (Longview) Daily News <a title=\"&quot;Meth trafficker sentenced Friday to 10 years&quot; from The (Longview) Daily News on Friday Jan. 21, 2011 at 7:45 p.m.\" href=\"http:\/\/tdn.com\/news\/local\/article_2bfd9458-25c9-11e0-8029-001cc4c002e0.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-4629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4629"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4633,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629\/revisions\/4633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}