SEATTLE, WA (MyBellinghamNow.com) – A drug trafficker that was tied to several deaths on the Lummi reservation has been sentenced.

33-year-old Treyvon Mitchell of Kent was originally indicted as part of 14 arrests tied to the Jackson Family Drug Trafficking Organization in October 2024. The family’s activities were tied to three overdose deaths on the reservation that year.

At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead noted the impacts of Mitchell’s role in the conspiracy.

“You were part of a conspiracy to distribute drugs across state lines and you were armed while doing it – fentanyl is already deadly on its own. People died here. Three people died in one day on the Lummi reservation from fentanyl that this conspiracy was pumping into that community – that was the business you were in. And the guns made it worse,” he said.

Mitchell pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances this past March.

He was sentenced in U.S. District court on Thursday, May 21, to six years in prison.

The Department of Justice said the organization’s operations distributed more than 800,000 fentanyl pills to several states in the U.S.