Two men who were significantly involved in a violent drug trafficking organization distributing meth, heroin and cocaine in the Seattle area – including Kent – were sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Son T. Nguyen, aka \u201cNine Fingers\u201d aka \u201cKim,\u201d 43, of Seattle, received a 10-year prison sentence and Long V. Trong, aka \u201cBlack Long,\u201d 43, of Seattle, was sentenced to six years, according to a U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office media release. The two men were both mid-level members of the drug ring, distributing drugs and using firearms to enforce rules and protect their drug territory.\u00a0 U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour imposed the sentence.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The two-year investigation lead by the FBI\u2019s Seattle Safe Streets Task Force (SSTF) and Bellevue Police Department\u2019s Eastside Narcotics Task Force (ENTF) revealed that each month the organization distributed 15-20 kilos of cocaine, 10-15 kilos of heroin and five kilos of methamphetamine across a wide swath of the greater Seattle metro area.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The two leaders of the drug ring were convicted at trial in April, and face up to life in prison when sentenced next month.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Drug activity associated with the organization occurred over a wide geographic area with many drug sales occurring in the \u201cJungle\u201d homeless encampment, as well as at homes and near businesses in Seattle, Renton, Shoreline and Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Trong controlled the drug sales in an area of the \u2018Jungle\u2019 and had other people working for him as drug sellers in the area. Evidence obtained during a court authorized wiretap of phones associated with the criminal group revealed Trong and others discussed assaults and a homicide in the Jungle tied to the drug trafficking activity.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
On multiple occasions members of the drug trafficking organization were arrested with firearms. Nguyen delivered a firearm to one of the co-conspirators intending that it be used in a violent crime. When he was arrested, Nguyen also possessed numerous firearms despite a lengthy criminal history which barred him from possessing guns.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Defendants in the drug ring who have already pleaded guilty and been sentenced to prison:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Phuong A. Nguyen, aka \u201cP,\u201d 42, of Kent, 12 years<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Brieanna K. Carlson, 27, of Seattle, three years<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Kimberle S. Alojasin, aka \u201cNguyen,\u201d 56, of South King County, four years<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Kenneth W. Thomas, 55, of SeaTac, four years<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Yen T. Vu, 55, of Seattle, three years<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Tony V. Nguyen, 23, of Seattle, two years<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two men who were significantly involved in a violent drug trafficking organization distributing meth, heroin and cocaine in the Seattle area – including Kent – were sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-6188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6188"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}