Chiefs’ Mike Bell and His Brother Are Sentenced to Prison

WICHITA, Kan. — Defensive end Mike Bell of the Kansas City Chiefs and his twin brother, Mark, were given prison sentences and fined $5,000 Thursday for their convictions last month on cocaine-related charges.

U.S. District Judge Wesley Browne sentenced Mike Bell to concurrent one-year prison terms on each of two charges of using a telephone to facilitate the distribution of cocaine. He will be required to spend one-third of the sentence before being eligible for parole.

He was also given a two-year suspended sentence and placed on probation for two years on a misdemeanor count of attempting to possess cocaine. The judge ordered him to participate in a drug after-care program that includes urinalysis during the two years of probation.

Mark Bell, a former player with the Seattle Seahawks and Indianapolis Colts, was sentenced to one year in prison on a charge of using a telephone to facilitate the distribution of cocaine and was given a suspended sentence on the misdemeanor count and placed on probation for two years.