A 44-year-old Puyallup man was sentenced to 11 years in prison last week for his role as a significant narcotic distributor for a drug trafficking organization tied to white prison gangs.
In February 2026, Daniel Hammond was convicted at a trial of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced.
“These substances have wreaked havoc in our communities,” Chief U.S. District Judge David Estudillo said at the sentencing hearing. “We are not dealing with someone who is just an addict who committed a petty crime; this was not just a one-time decision … the history shows you had a lifestyle living off of this type of conduct.”
Case grew out of a two-year probe into two white prison gangs
In March 2023, the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) began a two-year, multi-agency investigation into drug trafficking by members and associates of two predominantly white prison gangs: the Aryan Family and Omerta…