PORTLAND, Ore.—A Vancouver, Washington, woman was sentenced to federal prison last Tuesday for distributing fentanyl resulting in two overdose deaths. Alondra Stephanie Trujillo, 34, was sentenced to 100 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release. She was also ordered to pay $6,349.00 in restitution. “The tragic fentanyl...

Seattle – A 37-year-old Mexican national, a former resident of Issaquah, Washington, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to six years in prison for his role in an armed drug trafficking ring that sought drug customers in Seattle’s homeless encampments and International District. Giovanni Antonio Garduno Garcia...

Seattle –A 35-year-old Mexican national who was illegally residing in California was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 15 years in prison for her leadership role of a massive drug distribution ring. Iris Adrianna Amador-Garcia of Bellflower, California, arranged for the distribution of pound quantities of methamphetamine...

SEATTLE – A 33-year-old Kent, Washington, resident who evidence shows participated in a drug trafficking conspiracy while armed with firearms, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to six years in prison for drug trafficking. Treyvon Mitchell pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances in March 2026...

BOISE, Idaho – Boniface Binene, “Bones”, 25, a citizen of the Republic of Congo, Brazzaville, and lawful permanent resident of the United States, was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for distributing fentanyl to another person that resulted in death. According to court records, Binene pleaded guilty to the...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A Savoonga woman was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in prison for trafficking large amounts of illegal drugs into her small community on behalf of a drug trafficking organization allegedly run by a California inmate. According to court documents, in December 2022, law enforcement officials identified a...

JUNEAU, Alaska – Following a five-day trial, a federal jury convicted a Washington man on Wednesday of distributing fentanyl pills that resulted in the overdose death of two men in Skagway, Alaska. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, between Jan. 1 to 13, 2023, Jacob Cotton, 34...

SPOKANE, Wash. – On March 3, 2026, the Drug Enforcement Administration executed federal search warrants at multiple locations in the Tri-Cities, Washington area that resulted in the largest seizure of controlled substances in EDWA history. The federal search warrants were based on an ongoing drug trafficking investigation into Amador Sanchez...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A Kodiak man was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute deadly drugs that resulted in a fatal overdose in August 2022. While on pretrial release for state felony charges he committed in March 2022, Gerry Pugal, 38, agreed...

SEATTLE — The Mexico-based leader of a violent drug trafficking organization was arraigned Thursday in U.S. District Court in Seattle, following his transfer from Mexico. Jose Luis Sanchez-Valencia, 58, was transported from Mexico to the United States last month. The indictment for four federal felonies was returned in 2022. Sanchez-Valencia...