SEATTLE, WA (MyBellinghamNow.com) – A Bellingham man was sentenced today following one of the drug ring investigations in Whatcom County.

39-year-old Daniel Faix was arrested in April 2023 for his participation in fentanyl distribution and firearm crimes.

Before that arrest, Faix was found with thousands of fentanyl pills and drug proceeds back in December 2022 according to US Attorney Tessa Gorman. She says that a search of Faix’s RV four months later turned up thousands more pills and four illegal firearms.

In total, six people were arrested for the months-long investigation earlier last year. According to court records, the group moved fentanyl from the Seattle area to redistributors in Bellingham.

A member of the distribution ring Ahbdurman Ahmed was the first to be sentenced in January 2024 to six years in prison. He was one of the two people that overdosed on fentanyl pills in a Ferndale mini mart in 2022.

On Wednesday, another defendant – Natasha Parkhill of Bellingham – pleaded guilty with a July sentencing scheduled. Mohamed Abdirisak Mohamed from Seattle pleaded guilty back in January 2024 and has a sentencing hearing set for this coming June. Matthew Anderson of Bellingham has a trial date in July. The final member of the ring – Robel Sisay Gebremedhin, AKA Robel Sisay Gebremedhui – from Burien is still at-large.

Faix will spend the next decade in prison.