KANSAS CITY, Mo. – An Indiana man who brought a cooler of cocaine to a Kansas City bus stop now gets to spend the next 10 years in a Missouri prison.
Arnold E. Childress of Muncie, Ind., was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Kansas City for participating in a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute more than a kilogram of cocaine.
Law officers arrested Childress and John B. Carter, a 24-year-old California man, at a Greyhound bus terminal in Kansas City.
The two men got off the bus carrying coolers and that got the attention of police at the bus station, federal prosecutors said Wednesday in a press release.
A detective searched the coolers and found the cocaine, according to court documents.
Two heat-sealed bundles were found in the lining of the two coolers, containing a total of about 1.127 kilograms of cocaine.
Childress had a one-way ticket from Los Angeles to Indianapolis.
Carter was sentenced on March 17, 2009, to five years in prison without parole after pleading guilty to his role in the conspiracy.
