One of two defendants in a drug case was sentenced Friday by District Judge Tim Chambers.
24-year-old Rayland Brown was convicted of possession of crack cocaine, possession of marijuana, both with intent to distribute and possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to package for sale. He was also convicted in another case for the sale of cocaine going back to February 27, 2013. He was given 32-months in prison in each case. But the two sentences were ordered to run concurrent to each other, but consecutive to a third case.
He apparently agreed to a plea offer from the state which means they wouldn’t amend the complaint against him. That included upping the severity level for the possession of cocaine charge, changing the marijuana charge to having a form of synthetic marijuana with intent to distribute and adding two new charges of being in possession of two different prescription type drugs.
Both defendants in the case had the option of entering a plea avoiding the change in the complaint. Brown excepted while a co-defendant, 21-year-old Dwayne Lewis of Wichita did not. He will most likely face trial on the amended charges.
The case against the two centers on a Hutchinson Police Officer making a traffic stop in the 500 block of East 1st. That allegedly led to the discovery of crack cocaine and marijuana, both allegedly in a distribution amount.