Missouri – A Kansas City man is now facing the possibility of decades in federal prison after a jury found him guilty in connection with a large PCP distribution conspiracy that investigators said stretched across state lines and involved a wide drug trafficking network.
According to the Department of Justice, Russell L. Spencer Jr., 47, of Kansas City, Missouri, was convicted of one count of conspiracy to distribute more than one kilogram of phencyclidine, commonly known as PCP. The verdict came in U.S. District Court in Kansas City after jurors deliberated for about an hour and a half before returning their decision to Chief U.S. District Judge Brian C. Wimes.
The trial began Monday, April 27, and ended with Spencer becoming the last of 16 defendants tied to the case. The other 15 co-defendants had already pleaded guilty to their roles in the conspiracy…