STOCKTON, Minn. – The role of Winona County officers in the $1 million fraud case against a Stockton woman was to stand by while federal agents searched her property on the outskirts south of Stockton in January, Sheriff Ron Ganrude confirmed. Tammy Wadsworth, 62, appeared in federal court in Minneapolis last week. She was accused of running a franchise operation illegally from her house on Old County Road 23. It was on January 18 that federal agents entered the property abut 8:30 a.m., while the =local officers stood by. The local officers – three sheriff’s deputies and one city officer — were on scene 6 hours and 45 minutes. The indictment claims Wadsworth made false business claims to franchisees and peddled medically unproven techniques and products through the franchisees to their customers.
Site of January raid. A $465,000 14-room house outside Stockton. Four bedrooms, four baths.