KANSAS Town, Mo. – The former operator of an Olathe, Kansas, clinic that taken care of opioid addiction has been sentenced in federal courtroom for possessing methamphetamine to distribute.
Trevor J. Robinson, 46, of Olathe, Kan., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner on Tuesday, Jan. 10, to 11 decades and 3 months in federal jail without having parole.
Robinson owned and operated Nuvista, LLC, a Suboxone outpatient clinic in Olathe for persons with opioid addiction, from June 2013 until finally his arrest in Oct 2020, immediately after which the business enterprise closed. On Nov. 3, 2021, Robinson pleaded guilty to just one count of possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.
According to court files, Robinson utilized the Nuvista clinic locale to method, keep, and distribute methamphetamine. A confidential informant acquired a pound of methamphetamine from Robinson in the course of a controlled transaction in the clinic’s parking whole lot a couple times right before his arrest. Robinson also confirmed the private informant one more pound of methamphetamine within the Nuvista clinic that he was in the system of changing from liquid to crystal.
While the government does not at the moment have evidence Robinson offered medicine to specific clients of the clinic, in accordance to court docket files, the evidence does present he dispersed prescription drugs into the identical community he was hoping to assistance with treatment. Robinson was a significant-scale provider and did not promote right to end users, who would be shoppers of the clinic. For that reason, the government maintains it is feasible the prescription drugs he distributed designed their way to the addicts he was also managing.
Robinson admitted he was in possession of illegal prescription drugs when he was arrested by Kansas Metropolis police officers on Oct. 22, 2020. Regulation enforcement officers had Robinson, who experienced an exceptional arrest warrant, below surveillance at a Northland resort. Robinson conducted many small meetings with individuals in the parking whole lot. Those meetings ended up dependable with hand-to-hand drug transactions. Robinson left the lodge carrying a grey backpack, received into his Dodge Ram truck, and drove to a downtown parking garage. Robinson still left his truck in the parking garage and drove absent in his 2014 Maserati, which he parked on the road close by. Officers then surrounded the Maserati and arrested Robinson.
Robinson was in possession of a plastic bag that contained 15 white round supplements imprinted with “M30” in his front suitable pocket and $900 in his wallet. Laboratory assessments verified 14 of the products contained fentanyl and a single tablet contained oxycodone.
Officers searched Robinson’s Maserati and uncovered a grey backpack on the front passenger’s seat. The backpack contained a electronic scale, plastic bags that contained approximately 1.5 kilograms of methamphetamine, plastic baggage that contained cocaine and heroin, a number of plastic baggage that contained several supplements, like MDMA/ecstasy, a plastic bag that contained marijuana, $12,548 in income, two iPhones, and a leather-based-sure ledger notebook.
Soon after his arrest, Robinson explained to investigators that he offered methamphetamine in ounce or pound quantities. He admitted he bought pound and kilogram quantities of methamphetamine from at minimum three distinctive suppliers on a regular foundation. He paid $6,000 per pound of methamphetamine, which he bought for about $700 for every ounce.
According to court docket paperwork, Robinson has 4 prior felony convictions for drug trafficking in California from 1999 through 2003. He was released to parole in 2005 and discharged from supervision in 2008.
This circumstance was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Lawyer Ashleigh A. Ragner. It was investigated by the Kansas Town, Mo., Police Department, the FBI, and the Northeast Kansas Drug Process Drive.