Jon S. Holt, 46, Taylors Falls, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb to just over twenty years in prison for conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine in northern Wisconsin. Holt was convicted of that charge on Aug. 3, 2005, following a two-day trial in federal court in Madison.

The evidence showed that in Feb. 2002, Holt, along with several other people, conspired to manufacture methamphetamine at a residence in Grantsburg, Wisc. Holt supplied the anhydrous ammonia for the manufacture in exchange for half of the methamphetamine produced.

Holtís lengthy sentence is based in part on his years of criminal activity. Judge Crabb stated that Holt has been a menace to northern Wisconsin and Minnesota by making money selling methamphetamine, buying whatever he wanted and doing nothing to contribute to society, but rather preying upon it. Judge Crabb further stated that a sentence at the very top of the guideline range was necessary in this case.

The United States Attorneyís Office in Minnesota has filed a separate civil proceeding to forfeit Holtís property based on his previous drug activity.

Holtís co-defendants in the conspiracy, David Corty, Jr., 25, of Rush City, and Douglas Mudek, 40, of Cambridge, both pleaded guilty to the conspiracy in July 2005, and were sentenced in Sept. and Oct. Corty was sentenced to twelve months in prison, while Mudek received a forty-one month sentence.

The charges against Holt, Corty, and Mudek were the result of an investigation conducted by the Wisc. Dept. of Justice, Division of Criminal Investigation-Narcotic Bureau, the Burnett County, Wisc., Sheriffís Dept., the Polk County, Wisc., Sheriffís Dept., the Chisago County Sheriffís Office, and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Prosecution in this case has been handled by Asst. U.S. Attorney Laura A. Przybylinski Finn.

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