A Wildwood man has been indicted following the seizure of 476 pounds of methamphetamine from a St. Louis County storage unit, the largest seizure in the history of the DEA’s St. Louis Division, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced.
Kolby L. Kristiansen, 68, of Wildwood, a prior offender, was indicted by a grand jury on July 13 for alleged possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, and he faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison, according to court documents.
On June 29, a drug-detecting dog alerted authorities to the possible presence of illegal drugs in a storage unit investigators found in St. Louis County that Kristiansen reportedly used to store meth. After executing a federal search warrant, investigators allegedly found three plastic containers containing a substance believed to be meth in the storage unit, charging documents said.
“Methamphetamine has a street value of about $2,500 to $3,500 per pound at the mid-level drug distribution level where this drug was seized,” said special agent in charge Michael A. Davis, head of the DEA’s St. Louis Division. “That makes this seizure valued at more than $1 million the largest meth seizure in this division’s history. It’s a testament to the dedicated effort of our agents at stopping this poison from reaching our communities.”
In 2014, Kristiansen pleaded guilty to distribution of methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and was sentenced to two years in federal prison on each of the two counts, and those sentences ran concurrently, or at the same time. His sentence also included 48 months of supervised release, according to court documents.
Kristiansen recently was released from prison stemming from that case, and he was under supervised release when authorities found the drugs in the storage locker in June, court records said.