A 33-year-old Kent man received a six-year prison sentence for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy while armed with firearms.
Treyvon Mitchell was sentenced May 21 in U.S. District Court in Seattle, according to a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) press release. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances in March. Mitchell was identified as a member of the Jackson Family Drug Trafficking Organization that was indicted with 14 arrests in October 2024.
“You were part of a conspiracy to distribute drugs across state lines and you were armed while doing it…fentanyl is already deadly on its own,” U.S. District Judge Jamal N. Whitehead said at the sentencing hearing. “People died here. Three people died in one day on the Lummi reservation from fentanyl that this conspiracy was pumping into that community…that was the business you were in. And the guns made it worse.”…