Sayler A. Fleming, U.S. Attorney | U.S. Attorney' Office for the Eastern District of Missouri
Sayler A. Fleming, U.S. Attorney | U.S. Attorney' Office for the Eastern District of Missouri
U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. sentenced Clayton E. Barnes, a 53-year-old man from Kennett, to 128 months in prison for methamphetamine distribution offenses committed in 2023. Barnes admitted to selling methamphetamine on two occasions and pleaded guilty in April at the U.S. District Court in Cape Girardeau.
Barnes sold 54.4 grams of meth for $600 on August 17, 2023, to a confidential informant and a Missouri State Highway Patrol corporal in a store parking lot in Kennett. Six days later, the same corporal returned and purchased an additional 102.62 grams of meth from Barnes for $1,300.
As a career offender, Barnes has previous convictions including one in 2009 for selling eight grams of cocaine base and another in 2020 for selling fourteen grams of methamphetamine.
The case was investigated by the Southeast Missouri Drug Task Force with Assistant U.S. Attorney Julie Hunter prosecuting.
Alerts Sign-up