Kansas Cop Killer On Parole Busted In Meth Sting

An Olathe, Kansas, man who was on parole after spending 38 years in prison for murdering two people in a bar robbery, one of whom was an off-duty police officer, pleaded guilty to drug trafficking on Wednesday.

67-year-old Robert Lucious Toney pleaded guilty to distributing meth, possessing meth with the intent to distribute, and  crossing state lines to distribute drugs.

Toney sold an undercover officer two ounces of meth for $1,400 at a restaurant in Columbia, MO in meeting that was set up in December 2018.

Toney then met the undercover officer again in January 2019 at a restaurant in Kingdom City, MO. Toney was busted in the parking lot when he got out of his car. Officers searched the car, and under the gas tank lid found four plastic bags that contained meth and a bag that contained two grams of heroin and one gram of cocaine, which Toney planned to sell to the undercover officer for $3,200.

At the time, Toney was on parole after being sentenced to two consecutive life terms plus 20 years in prison for the 1973 conviction of murdering an off-duty police officer and another customer during a bar robbery and assaulting two more customers. After 38 years in prison, Toney was released on parole in 2010.

Under federal statutes, Toney is facing a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in federal prison without parole, up to a sentence of life in federal prison without parole.

A sentencing hearing will be scheduled after the completion of a presentence investigation by the United States Probation Office.