“Prolific drug trafficker” from Centralia heads to federal prison

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

A Centralia man described as a career drug trafficker was sentenced in federal court today to 15 years in prison.

Juvenal Sanchez-Islas, 33, was arrested in early 2010 with another man at a South King County apartment and the two were in possession of four kilos of heroin, according to the U.S. Attorneys Office.

Significant amounts of cocaine and methamphetamine were found inside the apartment, and searches there and at his Centralia home turned up a firearm and ammunition bearing his finger prints, according to U.S. Attorneys Office spokesperson Emily Langlie.

Sanchez-Islas is a Mexican national who pleaded guilty during his trial in November, according to Langlie.

He had previously been convicted and deported for drug trafficking, according to a news release.

At sentencing this morning in U.S. District Court in Seattle, Judge Robert S. Lasnik said, “He is a big time drug dealer who unleashed a lot of terribly dangerous drugs on the community over a long period of time,” the news release stated.

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One Response to ““Prolific drug trafficker” from Centralia heads to federal prison”

  1. George says:
    Friday, April 13, 2012 at 11:55 am

    4 KILOS of heroin (at 2.2 pounds per kilo, that would be almost 9 pounds of heroin!!!!) and he only got 15 years? He should have gotten substantially more…. since 9 pounds of heroin is definitely possession with intent to distribute.

    And then they will deport him in 10 years when he gets out, and he’ll be back here in no time, selling more drugs….