A Madison firefighter is facing four felony drug trafficking charges after he allegedly sold cocaine out of the fire station where he worked.
Trevor Wiggins, 47, was charged April 12 with maintaining a drug trafficking place, possession of cocaine with intent to deliver, manufacturing and delivering cocaine as a party to a crime and possessing narcotics. Wiggins is on administrative leave amid the investigation, according to a statement from Madison Fire Chief Chris Carbon.
A criminal complaint filed April 12 detailed four controlled drug purchases between Wiggins and investigators from February to April of this year, deals completed by cooperating witnesses using money from the Dane County Narcotics Task Force. The complaint says investigators bought just under four grams of mixed cocaine and fentanyl.
An anonymous source reported Wiggins’ potential involvement in drug trafficking in 2021, but the claims couldn’t be verified at the time.
A witness who told officers he used cocaine recreationally told investigators that he had typically bought the drugs from Wiggins at Wiggins’ house on Sugar Maple Lane. A few times, he said, Wiggins had sold to him at a Kwik Trip, and sometimes the transactions took place at the South Point Road fire station, the complaint said.
In February, a “confidential informant” took the witness to the fire station. He went inside for less than 30 seconds and returned to the informant’s car with cocaine.
Text message transcripts included in the complaint list interactions between Wiggins and the witness allegedly setting up cocaine purchases April 9 and 10.
Investigators carried out a search warrant in Wiggins’ house and car on April 11, recovering multiple guns, fentanyl pills, white cocaine and fentanyl powder, steroids and drug paraphernalia among other things. Wiggins had been home when the search happened but didn’t come to the door.
Madison Fire officials are conducting an internal investigation, Carbon said.
“We wish to stress that we take this matter very seriously. More so, we take seriously the trust our community places upon us each and every day,” Carbon wrote in an email statement to the Wisconsin State Journal on Tuesday. “Our firefighters are an essential part of this community, and we remain 100% committed to serving the City of Madison with the utmost integrity, professionalism, and dedication to this service.”
Wiggins is due in Dane County Circuit Court for a status conference on May 6, according to online court records. He is free on a signature bond.
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