Kansas City man sentenced to 10 years in prison for selling meth at I-70 service center near Lawrence
A federal judge Tuesday ordered a 20-year-old Kansas City, Mo., man to serve 10 years in federal prison for selling methamphetamine in 2010 to undercover officers, including at the service center east of Lawrence on Interstate 70.
U.S. District Judge Sam A. Crow in Topeka also ordered Andres Martinez to forfeit $8,400 and two vehicles that were used in commission of the crimes, according to U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom’s office.
Martinez had pleaded guilty last year to four counts of traveling in interstate commerce in furtherance of drug trafficking and three counts of distributing methamphetamine.
Martinez in his plea admitted on May 27, 2010, and June 14, 2010, he sold $2,400 worth of methamphetamine each time to undercover agents at the service center, which is five miles east of the East Lawrence interchange on the Kansas Turnpike.
He also admitted selling $3,600 worth of methamphetamine last July to an undercover agent at a gasoline station in Topeka and to collecting $1,200 as a payment for meth he sold to an undercover agent on Aug. 5, 2010, in Topeka.







