In non-election related news today, S-R reporter Scott Maben writes that a Coeur d’Alene gastroenterologist was unaware that his wife of 10 years, a Las Vegas stripper, was running a multistate drug trafficking and money laundering enterprise, according to court documents.

“Dr. Stanley Toelle and his wife Loren Toelle lived in different worlds, linked at the least by his money and her ambition and appetite for fun,” Maben writes. “He lived in a large house overlooking Lake Coeur d’Alene, had a thriving gastroenterology practice and nurtured a fondness for local craft beer.”

“She lived in Las Vegas near her adult children, started a beauty salon and danced in strip clubs. She drove a Chrysler luxury sedan and a Cadillac Escalade with the vanity plates ‘STAN4ME.’

“Together, they went on cruises and vacationed in Hawaii. He gave her nice jewelry and helped pay her bills to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, even helping buy Vegas-area homes for her kids.

“‘Proud of my wife. She has a vision for the family,’ he wrote in an April 2015 Facebook post.

“That same month, speaking of her Vegas Stylz salon, she posted on Facebook, ‘Ready to build this empire for the family.’

“That empire wasn’t being built on styling gel and hair extensions, but on sales of heroin, methamphetamine and oxycodone pills, according to federal prosecutors. Investigators say the drugs were moved from Nevada and California to Idaho, Washington, Montana and North Dakota from 2009 until early this year.” You can read Maben’s full story here at spokesman.com.