SEATTLE — A Honduran national has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for his role in a large drug trafficking case and for illegally returning to the United States after being removed, authorities said.
Jorge Aguilar Martinez, 30, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 54 months in prison, according to an announcement from First Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Neil Floyd. Aguilar Martinez was arrested in October 2025.
At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge James L. Robart said Aguilar Martinez was motivated by profit despite the harm caused by fentanyl in the community.
“Fentanyl pills have proven to be lethal,” Robart said. “It is very easy to get a fentanyl pill that contains a deadly dose.”…