Drugs — Yakima, Wash — reported 2026-07-13
SUMMARY
A man already serving time in federal prison was sentenced to an additional 10 years in Yakima after being convicted of distributing fentanyl from his prison cell.
KEY FACTS
- Incident type: Drugs
- Location: Yakima, Wash
- Date reported: 2026-07-13
- Suspect: not stated
REPORTED DETAILS
- Felipe Feliciano Ramirez, a lieutenant in the La Nuestra Familia prison gang, was found to have orchestrated a drug trafficking scheme using the prison's recorded phone and email systems.
- A package of fentanyl pills was intercepted before it could reach Spokane.
- Ramirez used recorded prison phone calls and the prison email system to arrange drug deals and send money to gang superiors.
- The Bureau of Prisons' National Gang Unit identified coded communications and learned fentanyl pills were being shipped to Spokane.
- 80 months of the new sentence will run consecutively, and the rest will run concurrently.