Gang member sentenced for repeated drug trafficking at Bellingham homeless encampment

Davon Malbrough, a 40-year-old man from Renton, was sentenced to four years in federal prison for trafficking fentanyl and methamphetamine at a homeless encampment in Bellingham.

Prosecutors on the case sought a longer sentence because Malbrough had already served over 12 years in prison for a first-degree assault. Less than a year after his supervised release in 2022, he was reportedly selling fentanyl and trafficking women for profit.

“The rapid recidivism shows a heightened risk to community safety,” prosecutors said in the sentencing memorandum…

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