Kansas City, Missouri – A Kansas City man will spend 17 years in federal prison after being sentenced for methamphetamine distribution and a firearm offense tied to the drug conspiracy, federal prosecutors said.
Derone D. Gipson, 44, of Kansas City, Missouri, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Beth Phillips to 180 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release. The sentence came after Gipson was found responsible for distributing and conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, as well as possessing a firearm in furtherance of that drug distribution conspiracy.
The prison term is longer because Gipson was already under federal supervision when the new crimes occurred. At the time of the offenses, he was on supervised release from a previous federal drug conviction. Judge Phillips sentenced him to an additional 24 months in prison for violating that supervised release. That term must be served after the 180-month sentence, bringing the total punishment to 204 months in federal custody…