TACOMA – Nicolas Orozco Cruz, arrested last year in Port Angeles for drug trafficking, was sentenced in federal court in Tacoma Friday to 46 months in prison to be followed by 3 years of Supervised Release. Cruz pled guilty to one of 7 counts.
His arrest, which followed a surveillance operation that began in 2017, was made at the Welcome Inn RV Park on Highway 101 in Port Angeles. Besides surveillance, agents used an informant wearing a wire to make several drug buys from Cruz. The informant reported making purchases in the past of a half-pound of heroin for $4,500.
At the time of his arrest, law enforcement said they believed Cruz and associates were the primary distributors of Mexican meth and heroin on the Olympic Peninsula.