PIKEVILLE, Ky. — A Letcher County man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison in a federal drug and gun case.
Larry Wayne Bentley, 44, of McRoberts, pleaded guilty back in December to conspiracy to distribute meth and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime.
Bentley admitted to buying pounds of meth from a Louisville supplier, then selling it in Letcher County. When police raided his home, they seized three pounds of meth, along with more than $14,000 in cash and three guns. He later admitted that the $10,000 he used to post bond was also drug money.
On Monday, a judge sentenced him to 20 years for the conspiracy charge and an additional five years on the gun charge.
A second person in the case — Bryan Wayne Branham, 44, of McRoberts — has also pleaded guilty to assisting Bentley with a drug sale on one occasion. He will be sentenced in May.
