SPOKANE, Wash. – A man has been sentenced for trafficking fentanyl pills after police found him with 1,4000 pills. He was also linked to an overdose death that occurred in 2022.
Jaycob Tyler Gonzalas, a 29-year-old from Nampa, Idaho, has been sentenced after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl.
In March 2022, police responded to a 911 call for an unconscious man at a Lewiston home. Officers found a man dead from a fentanyl overdose, with a fentanyl pill next to the body. Text messages on the man’s phone linked the drug deal to Gonzales.
Investigators tracked Gonzales, posing as a drug buyers in April 2022.
Police then stopped Gonzales during a traffic stop on May 22, 2022, when police were investigating his car they found 1,400 fentanyl pills in a disguised safe.
Gonzales confessed to selling drugs for about two months, making regular trips to Spokane to re-supply. He admitted to selling to the man who died of an overdose.
The judge sentenced Gonzales to nine years in prison with five years of supervised release.
