A conviction for conspiring to manufacture methamphetamine has resulted in prison sentence of almost seven years for an Osage City man. In a separate case, a Burlington man also was sentenced on meth-related charges.
Michael D. Raffa, 21, of Osage City was sentenced to 83 months in prison last month in Coffey County District Court, according to information from Coffey County Attorney Doug Witteman.
Raffa was sentenced Nov. 20 by District Judge Phillip M. Fromme on the Level 1 drug felony.
Witteman filed charges in January after a search warrant was executed at a north Coffey County home on Jan. 14 by Coffey County Sheriff’s Department officers. The search warrant was the result of an ongoing investigation conducted by sheriff’s deputies and the Waverly city marshal.
Raffa was convicted of the charge in August.
In a related case, Witteman said that Marcia A. Rucker, 46, of Osage City was sentenced Oct. 30 to a 40-month prison term, also on a charge of conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine.
A third person, Alfred Chad Forbes, 29, of Lebo, was convicted of the same charge on Nov. 13. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 17.
The second man sentenced last month on meth charges was Todd G. Combes, 44, of Burlington.
Fromme sentenced Combes to 17 months in prison for an October conviction for conspiracy to distribute meth, a Level 3 drug felony.
Witteman said that he filed charges against Combes on July 1, after a search warrant at a LeRoy residence early ion June.
“An investigation by the Coffey County Sheriff’s office determined that methamphetamine found at that residence had been distributed by Combes,” Witteman said.
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