{"id":282545,"date":"2023-04-28T23:17:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T04:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/?p=282545"},"modified":"2023-04-28T23:17:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T04:17:19","slug":"brainerd-man-sentenced-to-over-12-years-for-controlled-substance-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/brainerd-man-sentenced-to-over-12-years-for-controlled-substance-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Brainerd Man Sentenced to Over 12 Years for Controlled Substance Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper aligncenter\" style=\"width:100%px;\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J_Vxnbb7xGU?wmode=transparent&color=white&rel=0&showinfo=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"56.2\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>A U.S. District court judge has sentenced a Brainerd man to 12.5 years in prison for possession with intent to distribute controlled substances for an incident that happened last year.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Vernon Elwell received his sentence Thursday after he pleaded guilty in September 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents that on April 26, 2022, a Minnesota State Patrol Trooper stopped the 29-year-old at a gas station in Motley, as there was an active warrant for Elwell. Before being arrested, Elwell threw a pouch with almost $8,000 on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>During a search, the trooper also found a bag with fentanyl pills on the ground. Over 800 grams of methamphetamine, a digital scale, and an unserialized &#8220;ghost&#8221; handgun were also found in Elwell&#8217;s vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Elwell was sentenced to 150 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. District court judge has sentenced a Brainerd man to 12.5 years in prison for possession with intent to distribute controlled substances for an incident that happened last year.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":203067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12366,1,6449],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}