Renton resident sentenced to 7 years for role in international drug trafficking organization

Manuel Garcia Hernandez was arrested in June 2024, following a wiretap investigation of a drug trafficking organization importing methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine into the Seattle area from Mexico and Colombia.

The former owner of Mg General Construction LLC, Hernandez is reported to have lived in Renton for nearly two decades and to have raised a family in the city.

Law enforcement estimated Hernandez distributed ‘pound quantities’ of methamphetamine and cocaine – an amount, according to the National Library of Medicine that could have contained thousands of lethal doses…

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