Clinton Paul Patterson has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after officers arrived to arrest him at his girlfriend’s Pasco house and found partially dissolved fentanyl pills he had attempted to flush down the toilet.
The mass of blue and green pills fished out of the toilet contained more than three pounds of fentanyl.
Patterson was part of a sophisticated fentanyl trafficking operation that distributed tens of thousands of pills across Washington state, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Eastern Washington…