A La Crosse man will spend seven years in federal prison for dealing methamphetamine in 2019.
36-year-old Lucas Carpenter was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty last fall.
Prosecutors say Carpenter supplied meth to a friend who agreed to sell two ounces to a confidential law enforcement informant for $1,700.
The friend met the informant in a La Crosse parking lot and warned that Carpenter would be watching the deal.
He was stopped by police backing out of a parking stall and officers say he had a baggie of white powder in plain view.
A police dog alerted the presence of drugs in the car and an additional 13 grams of meth was seized.
