SPOKANE — A former Las Vegas stripper who ran a drug trafficking ring that stretched from Washington state to North Dakota has been sentenced to more than 17 years in federal prison. Her gastroenterologist husband who has said he was unaware of the drug dealing has pleaded guilty to filing false federal tax documents.
Loren M. Toelle, 52, was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and also received five years of probation after pleading guilty to leading the drug ring that also involved her adult children from other marriages.
The drug ring operated from 2009 to 2016 and sold oxycodone, heroin, and methamphetamine in parts of Idaho, Washington, Montana and North Dakota, federal prosecutors have said.
Her husband, Dr. Stanley Toelle, also appeared before Winmill Tuesday and entered his guilty plea to filing the false documents with the Internal Revenue Service in 2012 and 2013.