A federal jury here today delivered guilty verdicts against four defendants charged with trafficking crack cocaine in the Junction City and Manhattan areas but returned not guilty verdicts for two other defendants.

During trial, prosecutors presented evidence that in late 2012 and early 2013 agents of Kansas Bureau of Investigation and detectives from the Junction City Police Department investigated a large crack cocaine trafficking organization in Junction City and Manhattan.

The group was led by Albert Banks and Anthony Thompson, who sold the drugs to distributors who resold them on the streets.

The jury returned guilty verdicts against:
Albert Dwayne Banks, 33, Junction, City, Kan.
Johnny Lee Ivory, III, 29, Topeka, Kan.
Martye Madabuti Madkins, III, 34, Junction City, Kan.
Anthony Caryle Thompson, 33, Junction City, Kan.

Defendants Zachary Carlyle Patmon and Otis Dean Ponds were acquitted.

Sentencing is set for Sept. 28.