KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a 32-year-old St. Joseph man was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison without parole for his role in a $4 million drug-trafficking ring.
Prosecutors said Christopher Dean Parton, known as “Big Baby," was sentenced Wednesday. He pleaded guilty in April to two conspiracy charges and one gun charge.
Prosecutors allege the entire conspiracy distributed more than 520 kilograms of methamphetamine in northwest Missouri over three years. Parton regularly got 1 to 2 kilograms of meth in Kansas City and took it to St. Joseph. He also admitted he traded at least 50 guns he received through his drug trafficking. Parton is the first of 25 defendants sentenced in the case.