Packets of siezed cocaine are displayed at a police station in Bissau on March 21, 2012, by the department in charge of anti-drug trafficking operations. Guinea-Bissau has emerged as a major trafficking point for cocaine being smuggled from South America to Europe as traffickers take advantage of political instability to aid and cover their activities. AFP PHOTO/ ISSOUF SANOGO (Photo credit should read ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)(Photo: ISSOUF SANOGO AFP/Getty Images)



ST. LOUIS (AP) - A Missouri men's basketball fan who over four seasons regularly traveled with the team to NCAA tournament games has pleaded guilty to a federal drug conspiracy involving cocaine and marijuana distribution.


Online court records show that Levi McLean Franklin Coolley pleaded guilty Jan. 17 to attempting to sell more than 88 pounds of cocaine and an unspecified amount of marijuana between 2005 and 2011.


Coolley owns a car stereo shop in Columbia.


Coolley was arrested by FBI agents in March 2012 while at the Missouri team hotel in Omaha, Neb., hours before the Tigers' NCAA Tournament second-round loss to Norfolk State.


An internal review by Missouri found no improper influence by Coolley. He was on the team flights as a guest of Columbia real estate developer and prominent Missouri donor Jay Linder.


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