LACROSSE, Wis. — Bail was ordered a $1 million for a Viroqua man arrested for a major drug operation out of a Rose Street clothing shop. Louis A. Ray Jr., 46, had been arrested in Black River Falls on a LaCrosse warrant. While being booked in Black River he contaminated the jail by spewing the fatal drug fentynal around, which the place to be evacuataed.. After that epsiode, Ray was transferred to jail in LaCrosse. In all, police have arrested three men in the La Crosse case after executing search warrants for four residences, one business, and five vehicles. Confiscated were 43.2 grams of fentanyl that police said was dyed pink for branding purposes and also cash. The criminal complaint said that DRAP Apparel, 700 Rose Street, was the centerpiece of the drug ring. The shop had been under police surveillance for three months. Only the shop’s namesake, Dante Ray Sr., Louis Ray, and Dante Ray Jr. were ever seen entering the shop. There were no customers, police said. Mannequins in the widow were unchanged the whole period. In searching the shop, police reported finding empty kilo wrappers, digital scales, several dozens of plastic baggies with corners cut off. “It appeared his shop was specifically being used as a front to sell drugs,” the criminal complaint said. Ray Sr. has not been charged, police emphasized, But these men have:
T-shirt shop. Police say that illicit drugs passed in and iout of th out of this shop at 700 Rose Street on the LaCrosse North Side. Image: Steve Lunde
Timothy Cannon: Delivery of fentanyl, dealing within 1,000 feet of a park, maintain a drug-trafficking residence, bail-jumping, possession of drug paraphernalia.
Dante Ray, Jr.: Maintaining a drug-trafficking Residence, possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia
Louis Ray: Delivery of cocaine and fentanyl, dealing illegal drugs within 1,000 feet of a park, probation violation
The arrests were a major project involving numerous agencies: , Jackson County, La Crosse County and Vernon County sheriffs; LaCrosse and Onalaska; police; Town of Campbell police; the Wisconsin Criminal Investigation Division,; the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives ;and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.