Kansas man admits he owned the meth spilled inside cop car after arrest, gets 7 years

A Kansas man is headed to federal prison for more than seven years after admitting he owned the methamphetamine found in a cop car after his arrest.

Robert Ewing Jr., 42, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Wichita to 88 months in prison after previously pleading guilty to possessing meth with intent to distribute, court records show.

Ewing admitted in a plea deal that he was arrested by a Harvey County Sheriff’s Office deputy on Dec. 4, 2018, after a traffic stop. He was handcuffed and put in the back of the patrol car, where the deputy later found a “white crystal-like substance spread around the interior of his car, along with a baggie” that had more of the substance, the plea deal states.

The substance and the baggie were not in the patrol car before the arrested man was put inside. Lab testing by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation determined there was 65 grams of meth in the car. Ewing admitted the meth was his and that he intended to distribute it.

Additional drug-related charges were dismissed as part of the plea agreement.