SEATTLE, Oct. 1 -- The U.S. Justice Department's Drug Enforcement Administration's Seattle Field Office issued the following press release
Seattle - A 54-year-old Federal Way, Washington, man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to three years in prison for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy that preyed, in part, on unhoused people in "The Jungle" under I-5 and Seattle's International District. Leonardo Rojas Cruz was indicted in May 2025, following a lengthy wiretap investigation. Rojas Cruz was a redistributor of cocaine and methamphetamine ordering up multiple pound quantities of the drugs. At the sentencing hearing U.S. District Judge Tana Lin noted that cocaine users, such as Rojas Cruz, were particularly vulne...