NewsJanuary 4, 2001
MAN COPS PLEA TO DRUG COUNT
A 36-year-old Mississippi County man pleaded guilty this week to federal charges of manufacturing methamphetamine, the U.S. Attorney's office said. Mississippi County sheriff's deputies searched Walter Kevin Burney's house in June and found a methamphetamine laboratory, 123 grams of methamphetamine and 13 firearms...
A 36-year-old Mississippi County man pleaded guilty this week to federal charges of manufacturing methamphetamine, the U.S. Attorney's office said.
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Mississippi County sheriff's deputies searched Walter Kevin Burney's house in June and found a methamphetamine laboratory, 123 grams of methamphetamine and 13 firearms.
As a previously convicted felon in Missouri and Arkansas, Burney can be sentenced to a maximum of 10 years in prison for keeping firearms. The methamphetamine charge is punishable by up to 40 years in prison. He will be sentenced April 2.
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