A Tacoma man has been sentenced in federal court to seven years in prison for his role in a multi-state drug trafficking ring that led to the fatal overdoses of four members of the Lummi Nation within four days in 2023.
Michael Young Jr., 44, was a member of the Jackson Drug Trafficking Organization, which distributed fentanyl across multiple states, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington. Throughout the course of the investigation, law enforcement seized more than 846,000 fentanyl pills, nearly 7 kilograms of fentanyl powder, 7 kilograms of cocaine, 29 firearms and more than $116,000 in cash.
Twenty-two people were indicted in total, with five being members of the same south King County family. Young is the first defendant to be sentenced…