In January, all four members of a Waukesha family were charged with multiple drug-related charges, including maintaining a drug trafficking place, from their southwest side home.
Two of the four members of the Wapp family, who lived at 1404 Oakdale Drive, are now spending time behind bars, while another could soon follow them to jail after recently pleading guilty.
Meanwhile, the case for the father involved is heading to a jury trial early next year.
Andrew Wapp III, 29, pleaded guilty in May to manufacturing and delivering
narcotics and was sentenced by Judge Kathryn Foster in June to six years in state prison and another four years of extended supervision. Upon his release, he is barred from residing with immediate members of his family.
Five other drug-related charges for Wapp III were read into the record but were dismissed as part of a plea agreement.
According to the criminal complaint, Wapp III sold multiple pills to an undercover detective in a shopping center parking lot near the family's home in January.
In the complaint, Wapp III said he was selling morphine pills to a very "select group of people." He told police in the complaint he did not obtain pills through a legitimate prescription. He added that the 200-mg morphine pills were obtained by someone else, not someone in his family, the complaint said.
The complaint notes that both Wapp parents and their children received 50- to 200-mg morphine sulfate capsules from someone in Milwaukee and that they secured them in safes until they were sold.
Mother serving time
Wapp III's mother, Sylvia Wapp, 51, also pleaded guilty in May to manufacturing and delivering narcotics. A three-year prison sentence was stayed and a one year in jail imposed, a term that began July 19. After six months of jail time, the court could consider ending the balance of the sentence for supervision and monitoring through the Waukesha Day Report Center at the county's Huber facilities, which provides programming for adults after conviction.
According to the complaint, Sylvia Wapp sold morphine pills on two occasions from their home to a detective in an undercover drug sting. She said in the complaint she had been selling morphine pills to two people out of her house a couple times a month, charging $50 a pill. Sylvia Wapp said she would get the pills from a person in Waukesha and pay $20 apiece or sometimes less.
According to the complaint, Sylvia Wapp said the main reason she would get the pills is to help her husband, Andrew Jr., with pain for his herniated discs. The remaining pills she sold were to help with the bills, the complaint said.
Three other drug-related charges for Sylvia Wapp were dismissed as part of a plea agreement.
Daughter pleads
Jessica Wapp, 27, entered an Alford plea on Oct. 15, to the charge of possessing with the intent to deliver narcotics.
An Alford plea acknowledges that the prosecution could likely get a conviction, while not acknowledging guilt.
Two other drug-related charges were dismissed. She will be sentenced by Judge Ralph Ramirez during a hearing Nov. 18.
In the complaint, Jessica Wapp said she sold a couple morphine pills to a friend last year but didn't participate in the sale as much as her family members.
Up next
A jury trial for her father, Andrew Wapp Jr., 50, is scheduled for Jan. 26, 2016. He is charged with possessing with the intent to deliver narcotics, maintaining a drug trafficking place and resisting an officer.
Wapp Jr., who is not in custody, said in the complaint he had an old prescription for morphine pills and would help friends by selling the pills for $50 apiece.
Wapp Jr. told officers in the complaint the family was not getting rich by selling drugs, but he needed to make ends meet because Social Security doesn't pay enough.