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A Wichita man who admitted selling millions of dollars in cocaine will spend the next two decades in federal prison.
U.S. Senior District Judge Monti Belot sentenced Tyrone L. Andrews, 41, to 20 years Monday. Andrews pleaded guilty earlier this year to dealing as much as five kilograms of cocaine a week.
Prosecutors estimated in court records that Andrews may have dealt some $11.7 million in cocaine in just two years from his home in the 1800 block of South Ridgewood in southeast Wichita.
Andrews admitted he made his living from selling cocaine for years and consistently sold it from 2002 until his arrest in 2007.
Prosecutors said that they had information that Andrews had been dealing drugs in Wichita since at least the mid-1990s.
Andrews said he'd buy the cocaine from two other men, Jose Pizana and Jesus Valencia Abarca.
After paying from $15,000 to $17,000 per kilogram, Andrews said, he would repackage it and sell it for about $18,000 per kilogram. Andrews also admitted that he could process the powder into a crack cocaine base, which he could sell for $12,000 per half-kilo.
His customers included members of the Crips street gang, U.S. Attorney Lanny Welch said in a statement released by his office.
Andrews estimated he bought and sold five kilograms of cocaine a week from 2005 to 2007.
During 2007, Wichita police and Sedgwick County sheriff's investigators recorded phone conversations between Andrews and his buyers, Welch said. Police also arranged for informants to make purchases from Andrews.
Police intercepted Andrews while he was making a drug delivery on Sept. 22, 2007.
Andrews tried to flee in his car, leading police on a chase through neighborhoods in northeast Wichita. He later admitted tossing a package of cocaine out of his car on Spruce Street during the chase.
After eventually stopping Andrews, police found about three pounds of cocaine.
Andrews pleaded guilty to:
* One count of conspiracy to commit drug trafficking
* 64 counts of using a telephone in furtherance of drug trafficking
* 19 counts of distributing cocaine
* One count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine
* One count of maintaining a residence for the purpose of storing and distributing cocaine
Valencia Abarca previously received more than 13 years and Pizana received 10 years in prison.
There is no parole from federal prison.
