SEATTLE—Two Honduran Nationals living in Everett, Santana Sandoval, 21, and Kevin Torres Velasquez, 45, were charged with possession of a controlled substance (fentanyl) with intent to distribute in a U.S. District Court in Seattle, Friday, May 9. Together the two possessed more than seven kilos of powdered fentanyl—enough to kill 3.5 million people—which they allegedly used to distribute throughout King and Snohomish counties, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Sandoval was arrested in the Western District of Virginia on April 24, 2025, and was delivered to the Western District of Washington last week. He remains detained at the federal detention center in SeaTac.
He first came to the attention of law enforcement earlier this year as someone distributing fentanyl in the region and was eventually caught by an undercover Officer who purchased fentanyl from him, using a confidential source.
Sandoval was living in an Everett apartment where, on January 24, 2025, agents and officers working with the Seattle Police Department, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), by way of a search warrant, found over seven kilos of powdered fentanyl, as well as cocaine, methamphetamines, scales, and more than $12,000 in cash, the criminal complaint states…