United States Drug Enforcement Administration

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - Kyrron Haynes, age 29, of Charleston, Missouri, was sentenced to serve eight years in federal prison for distribution of fentanyl. Haynes appeared for his sentencing hearing yesterday before U.S. District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig at the federal courthouse in Cape Girardeau.

At his guilty plea hearing last year, Haynes admitted that he sold a quantity of fentanyl to an individual in Charleston on two separate occasions in March 2023. Unbeknownst to Haynes at the time, the individual purchasing the fentanyl was working as an informant for the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. At the time of the offenses, Haynes was on parole supervision through the State of Missouri for a prior drug-trafficking conviction. After serving the eight-year sentence, Haynes will be placed on three years of supervised release.

DEA investigated this case with the Sikeston Department of Public Safety and the Southeast Missouri Drug Task Force.