|
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
June 10, 2008
LAWRENCE MAN SENTENCED TO 7+ YEARS IN FEDERAL DRUG TRAFFICKING CASE
KANSAS CITY, KAN. – John Burke Holt, 40, was sentenced Monday to 87 months in federal prison on drug trafficking charges.
Holt pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to manufacture, distribute or possess with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of crack cocaine, and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm after a felony conviction.
In his plea, Holt admitted that in the summer of 2004 he conspired with Don Marcus Gibler and others to distribute crack cocaine in Lawrence, Kan. In return for crack, Holt allowed Gibler and others to use his residence at 3700 Hartford to manufacture and distribute crack cocaine. On Aug. 28, 2004, investigators serving a search warrant at Holt’s residence found marijuana, crack cocaine and handguns.
Gibler was sentenced in October 2007 to 27 years in federal prison.
U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren commended the city-county Drug Enforcement Unit, comprising officers from the Lawrence Police Department and the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which investigated the case, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Rask, who is prosecuting.
##