A Douglas County man has been indicted in a years-long methamphetamine trafficking operation, including for allegedly using his home and a gun to further the crimes.

Bradley K. Neis, 60, of rural Wellsville, was arrested Wednesday at his home, located in the southeast corner of Douglas County, according to Douglas County Jail records. The same day, Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents also arrested a Bonner Springs man, 48-year-old Kenneth S. Blair, at Neis’ home in connection with the same case. Both were turned over to U.S. Marshals.

Neis and Blair — along with six other defendants — are charged in a newly unsealed federal indictment alleging that they conspired to possess and distribute methamphetamine in Kansas and elsewhere over the past two years.

A grand jury charged the eight co-defendants with 42 counts in all, according to the indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan. The indictment alleges:

The defendants distributed more than 50 grams of meth on many occasions since January 2016. They used guns and telephones to further the drug trafficking operations. A number of the drug transactions took place within 1,000 feet of schools, though neither listed school — Mount Olive Lutheran School and Junction Elementary School — is in Douglas County.

The indictment also demands that the defendants forfeit a total of 16 handguns and rifles, plus any ammunition, allegedly used in the commission of the drug crimes.

The indictment doesn’t give details about exactly what drug activity allegedly occurred at Neis’ home at 2155 North 200 Road, simply that around July of 2017 the home was used for “unlawfully storing, using, manufacturing, and distributing methamphetamine.”

Neis is the registered owner of that home, according to Douglas County property records.

The first defendant in the case, Michael Pruitt, was initially indicted and arrested in November 2018, according to federal court records. A superseding indictment, filed Jan. 16 and unsealed Tuesday, added seven co-defendants: Neis; Blair, aka “KB”; Shawnell Stengel, aka Shelly Crabaugh; Lucky Stoddard; Crystal Gibson; David Hargrave; and Jermey Elliot, aka Jeremy Elliot.

Pruitt and Gibson were arrested in Kansas City, Kan., and Stengel was arrested in Gardner, according to court documents. The file did not include arrest or residency information for Stoddard, Hargrave and Elliot.