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Coffeyville Man Sentenced to 14 Years for Drug Trafficking

U.S. Attorney’s Office October 27, 2009
  • District of Kansas (316) 269-6481

KANSAS CITY, KS—Victor Lavone Lewis, 34, Coffeyville, Kan., has been sentenced to 168 months in federal prison for drug trafficking, U.S. Attorney Lanny Welch said today.

Lewis pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and three counts of distributing crack cocaine. According to court records, Lewis was arrested Sept. 17, 2003, when the Coffeyville Police Department, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the Labette County Sheriff’s Office and the Kansas Highway Patrol served a search warrant at a house in Coffeyville that Lewis shared with co-defendant Syeta Holt. Investigators seized crack cocaine, marijuana, a 9 mm handgun, police scanners and cash.

Lewis was one of the targets of Operation Little Big Man, an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force project that yielded dozens of federal indictments for drug trafficking, armed robberies, shootings, abductions and money laundering in Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri.

Charged along with Lewis were Syeta Holt, 36, Coffeyville, Kan., who was sentenced to 36 months, and Anthony O’Neil Bass, 27, Coffeyville, Kan., who was sentenced to 92 months.

Welch commended the agencies that worked on Operation Little Big Man, including the Coffeyville Police Department, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the Labette County Sheriff’s Office, the Kansas Highway Patrol, the Internal Revenue Service, the Parsons Police Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Rask, who prosecuted the case.

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