Man wanted by FBI found in Kansas City
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMIZ)
The FBI announced in a press release that Trevor Sparks was arrested Friday in the 400 block of Olive Street in Kansas City.
Sparks, 33, was charged in a criminal complaint with escape from confinement on Dec. 7.
Sparks and Sergio Perez Martinez escaped Dec. 5 from the Cass County Jail. Police didn't realize they were missing until the next morning, according to a Dec. 8 press release.
Sparks, 33, was convicted Nov. 7 by a federal trial jury for leading a criminal conspiracy linked to two murders and multiple violent assaults, and which distributed at least a kilogram of methamphetamine every day for nearly a year in the Kansas City, Springfield, St. Joseph and St. Louis areas.
He was found guilty of one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, one count of participating in a money-laundering conspiracy, one count of possessing firearms in relation to a drug-trafficking crime, and one count of being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.
He was awaiting sentencing when he escaped. Sparks is in the custody of the U.S. Marshals.
The FBI did not believe that Sparks and Martinez were traveling with each other.
Martinez, 43, pleaded guilty on July 11 in federal court to one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, according to a press release from earlier this month. He is still at large.
