Wednesday, 20 August 2008

Artessia Moore, 21, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Kansas City where she pleaded guilty earlier this year.

Artessia Moore, 21, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Kansas City where she pleaded guilty earlier this year. She was carrying four bundles of cocaine in a swimsuit under her clothes last August when she was stopped by Kansas City police at a downtown bus terminal, according to court documents.The man she was traveling with, Morris Butler, 31, ran when officers tried to talk to him. He was fatally shot a short time later while struggling over an officer’s gun.Moore later told police that Butler paid her $1,000 to carry the drugs, which weighed almost five pounds, from California to Columbus, Ohio.

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