UPDATED: Charges Roll in from Greenvale Place Drug Bust

Eight Northfield residents are making their way through Rice County District Court after law enforcement officials for allegedly dealing drugs out of .

Six residents were picked up early Wednesday, while another two were arrested just before noon Wednesday, said Director Mark Taylor.

Northfield Patch will update this page throughout the day as each person is formally charged in court.

Below are the names and details of the cases already seen by the court.

• Cory Joseph Wunderlich, 25

• Is charged with two crimes: fourth-degree sale of marijuana in a public housing zone and second-degree sale of amphetamine in a public housing zone
• Is alleged to have sold 2.4 grams of marijuana (weighed with packaging) to an undercover informant and is alleged to have sold eight Adderall pills to an undercover informant
• Faces up to 40 years in prison and/or $600,000 in fines
  

• James Arthur Swanson, 32

• Is charged with four crimes: second-degree sale of Amphetamine (50 or more dosage units); two charges of second-degree sale of Amphetamine in a public housing zone; fourth-degree sale of marijuana in a public houzing zone
• Is alleged to have sold 50 Adderall pills and 4.2 grams of marijuana (weighed with packaging) to an undercover informant in three controlled buys
• Faces up to 90 years in prison and/or a $1.6 million in fines

• Ryan Thomas Plonski, 24

• Is charged with four crimes: second- and third-degree aiding/abetting the sale of Oxycodone in a public housing zone; second-degree sale of Oxycodone in a public housing zone and third-degree sale of Oxycodone
• Is alleged to have aided in the sale of six Percocet pills—containing Oxycodone—to an undercover informant at one controlled buy and is alleged to have sold eight Percocet pills to an undercover informant in a second controlled buy.
• Faces up to 70 years in prison and/or $1.5 million in fines

• Jamie Leigh Christophersen, 23

• Is charged with two crimes: second-degree sale of a narcotic (Oxycodone) in a public housing zone and third-degree sale of a narcotic (Oxycodone)
• Is alleged to have sold six Percocet pills—containing Oxycodone—with Plonski to an undercover informant
• Faces up to 45 years in prison and/or $750,000 in fines

• Kevin Michael Reineke, 22

• Is charged with five crimes: three counts of fourth-degree sale of marijuana in a public housing zone; second-degree sale of a fetanyl patch in a public housing zone; third-degree sale of a fetanyl patch. A fetanyl patch is an "extremely strong analgesic opiod form of morphine that is 100 times more potent than morphine and normally prescribed to end-stage cancer patients or those with significant chronic pain."
• Is alleged to have sold a total of 20.7 grams (weighed with packaging) to an undercover informant during three controlled buys and is alleged to have sold part of a fetanyl patch to an undercover informant
• Faces up to 160 years in prison and/or $1.05 million in fines

The arrests were 14 months in the making. The Rice County Drug Task Force began its investigation July 7, 2010, after several complaints from residents of the complex.

During that span 12 people—eight men and four women—were involved in purchasing and selling drugs, Taylor said, and law enforcement is searching for the remaining suspects.

The Task Force executed 28 controlled buys in relation to this investigation, Taylor said, with all but one taking place at Greenvale. That one, however, was initiated at the apartment complex.

Drugs found in the bust were Adderall, marijuana and pain relievers Vicodin, Tylenol pills that have Codeine, Percocet, Tramadol and liquid Methadone.

Reineke and another two people were arrested this week in an . Those purchases did not happen at Greenvale, Taylor said.