Federal Recognition

MATT STERBENZ, an Ironwood Public Safety Department officer, receives a certificate of appreciation Monday from the federal Drug Enforcement Agency for organizing the largest seizure of methamphetamine in the history of the Upper Peninsula in the "Rockstar" Rick Hill, Ironwood case. Eight people were arrested over three years in a drug distribution trail that led to Mexico. From left are Mayor Annette Burchell and city commissioners Jim Mildren, Kim Corcoran, Brandon Tauer and Rick Semo, and IPSD Director Andrew DiGiorgio. Sterbenz is the lead officer of the Gogebic-Iron Area Narcotics Team.