The Brief
- Mexican citizen and Kent resident Ramon Duarte Garcia was arrested in June 2024 for drug trafficking.
- Duarte Garcia was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle.
- Duarte Garcia had been stopped by law enforcement on multiple occasions across the West Coast, and was previously charged with drug trafficking in California.
SEATTLE – A Kent resident was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 10 years in prison for drug trafficking, officials announced.
The backstory:
Ramon Duarte Garcia, 38, was arrested in June 2024 following a four-year drug investigation led by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Seattle Police Department, and resulted in investigators seizing more than 32 kilograms of cocaine, 14 kilograms of meth, 83,000 fentanyl-laced pills, 3 kg. of heroin, 1 kg. of fentanyl powder and multiple firearms. …