Meth distribution sends Baxter Springs man to prison

After recently pleading guilty to distributing methamphetamine in Cherokee County in December 2022, Charles Tunnell III, 33, of Baxter Springs was sentenced to 55 months imprisonment last week in Cherokee County District Court.

Tunnell is being held in the Cherokee County Law Enforcement Center pending transfer to the Kansas Department of Corrections. The case was prosecuted by the Cherokee County …