COURT BEAT: KCK man sentenced to 30 years in methamphetamine trafficking

Posted by Nick Sloan on December 3, 2009 - 10:32am
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A Kansas City, Kan., man has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for drug trafficking.

Carlos Beltran-Aguilar, 22, was sentenced on one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, one count of  possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, and one count of maintaining a residence at 1118 N. 50th Street in KCK for the sole purpose of drug trafficking.

The home was searched earlier this year and $18,000 in cash, a 9 mm handgun and methamphetamine resources were found.

Beltran-Aguilar and co-defendant Jose Torres-Garcia were picked up near Mound City, where police discovered two pounds of the drug concealed in a box of detergent.