SPOKANE, Wash. — 61-year-old David Lee Fullmer was sentenced to five years in prison and five years of supervised release after being convicted of trafficking tens of thousands of fentanyl pills between eastern Washington and southeastern Idaho.
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According to court documents, Fullmer was being tracked in November 2022 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after he was linked to a supplier of methamphetamine and fentanyl-laced pills, identified as David Velasquez. The FBI secured evidence that Fullmer and Velasquez made regular calls to one another. Velasquez had an address in Phoenix, Arizona.
On August 10, 2023, FBI agents followed Fullmer, who rented a pickup truck in Spokane and headed east on I-90 to a meeting location in Blackfoot, Idaho. Agents said they watched Velasquez take something out of his vehicle, and walked to the front passenger door of Fullmer’s pickup, before the two went their separate ways. A Washington State Patrol (WSP) trooper stopped Fullmer’s truck at a watercraft inspection station inside Spokane County after the drop.