(KAIR)--The man arrested in connection with an apparent grow operation at his residence will spend nearly a year behind bars.

44-year-old Lancaster resident John Shufflebarger was sentenced in Atchison County District Court to 11 months in prison for possession of methamphetamine, 11 months for possession of drug paraphernalia and 18 months probation for possession of marijuana.

Those sentences will all run at the same time.

According to a report from Atchison County Sheriff Jack Laurie, Shufflebarger allowed deputies to search his home at 105 Kansas Street in August. There, they discovered a marijuana grow operation in a closet. Shufflebarger also revealed to deputies a wooden box containing what deputies to believed to be methamphetamine.