A Spokane man who turned a Hillyard basement into a commercial pill-press lab has been handed a two-decade federal prison sentence after investigators found enough fentanyl powder to press more than 2 million potentially lethal pills. Prosecutors say the stash was big enough, by Drug Enforcement Administration calculations, to kill the county’s population nearly four times over. Nicholas Adams, 37, will also spend 10 years under federal supervision after he gets out.
What Investigators Found
Federal prosecutors say Adams and a co-defendant ordered a commercial pill press by mail from China and set it up in the basement of a Hillyard home, creating what they described as a makeshift pill-press operation. When agents executed search warrants in…..