Confessed meth dealer sentenced to seven years in federal prison

A federal judge Friday sentenced a 26-year-old Kansas City, Kan., man who admitted supplying methamphetamine to a Lawrence dealer to serve seven years in prison.

District Judge Kathryn Vratil ordered the sentence Friday morning for Alfonso Salazar Solis, who had pleaded guilty in June to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine from October 2010 to February 2011 in the Lawrence area. He admitted to supplying methamphetamine to Joseph Henry Hibbs Jr., 43, of Lawrence. Federal prosecutors alleged one of the deals occurred at a house near Woody Park in the 200 block of Maine Street and at parking lots at both Walmart stores in Lawrence.

Hibbs is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 4. Another co-defendant David John Kessler, 35, of Lawrence, is scheduled to be sentenced in December.