Vanessa R. Waldref, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Sharte Dashon Kimble, age 32, has been sentenced after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possession with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl.
Senior United States District Court Judge Edward F. Shea imposed a sentence of 165 months in federal custody.
At the time of the offence, Kimble was on supervised release following a conviction on federal drug and firearms charges. As a penalty for the supervised release violation, Senior Judge Shea imposed a penalty of 25 months which will be served consecutively to the 165-month sentence imposed in this case.
According to court documents and information presented at the sentencing hearing in June of 2023, the Missouri River Drug Task Force in Helena, Montana, developed information that Kimble was a large source of supply of illegal narcotics. Law enforcement arranged a controlled buy of fentanyl pills from Kimble at the Walmart in Kennewick, Washington.
On June 15, 2023, Kimble was identified as the driver of a grey Mercedes E350 that was parked in the Walmart parking lot. As the controlled buy was underway, multiple law enforcement vehicles approached the Mercedes, with the occupants wearing marked vests and their emergency lights activated.
Kimble saw the units moving in and took off, running towards Highway 395. Kimble tossed a bag of fentanyl pills and a cell phone away as he attempted to escape law enforcement. Investigators located the bag and phone. Inside the bag were two one-gallon-sized plastic bags that contained approximately 20,283 fentanyl pills.
Investigators searched the Mercedes and located a loaded Glock .380 calibre pistol that had been reported stolen, a loaded magazine, cocaine packed in small plastic bags, almost $40,000 in cash, more than 1,000 fentanyl pills, as well as receipt for a storage unit in Yakima, Washington.
Investigators searched the Yakima storage unit and located hundreds of rounds of ammunition, extended magazines, a Glock pistol, a Norinco rifle, and a Colt. 22 rifle, a 2-pound brick of cocaine, and several vials of small blue pills.
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