Washington Woman Sentenced for Guns and Intent to Sell Fentanyl on the Dark Web

This story is almost like something you would see in a Showtime show like Weeds. This week, a second defendant in a RV drug bust case out of North Bend was sentenced to seven years in prison.

What Had Happened Was...

A couple living out of an RV in Washington State was busted by King County Sheriffs for drugs, guns, and weapons possession in their RV camper. Homeland Security and the FBI later discovered the couple were also involved in selling fentanyl on the dark web.

Other agencies helped to nab the suspects, including the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Washington State Patrol, and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).

A campground shooting is what started the investigation into the Washington couple, as revealed by KOMO News. The man, Braiden F. Wilson, was shot in the campground and went to Harborview Medical Center for medical attention. When he and his partner, Chandler Bennett, returned to their RV, King County Sheriffs deputies were securing the crime scene and investigating the shooting.

Wilson tried to enter his RV--against law enforcement's orders not to-- and he was eventually tased and told to leave the premises with Bennett, according to a report from Valley Record News. The pair were both later arrested after a search warrant procured several illegal and deadly items, which you will see below.

The couple got busted after a raid on their RV at Washington's Olallie State Park, located near North Bend.

Not only was the couple arrested and charged with a host of crimes including drug trafficking and drug possession with intent to sell black market fentanyl, but they were also accused of putting facility workers and customers at risk because of the toxic contamination of their storage unit, which was discovered after another search warrant.

Western District Court U.S. Attorney Teal Luthy Miller's office prosecuted Chandler Bennett and Braiden F. Wilson in Seattle and sentenced them to prison for seven and eight years, respectively.

I am shocked at how easy it is to print gun parts with a 3D machine! King County Sheriffs had discovered Wilson and Bennett were in possession of 3D-generated gun parts, which they kept in their RV.

Other illicit items the couple kept in their camping RV included manual pill presses, kilos of fentanyl pills, pipe bombs, gun silencers, body armor, various booklets with instructions on how to make explosives, and more.

"When law enforcement entered the RV, they found a large cache of weapons as well as fentanyl powder, tablets containing fentanyl, and sundry items associated with the manufacture of tablets, including a manual pill press. Law enforcement located more than two and a half kilograms of fentanyl-laced pills. Law enforcement seized 16 firearms, body armor, silencers, and ballistic shields." - Justice.gov

To read the whole story, see "Defendant negotiated prices from drug suppliers and shot some of the guns in the RV, including a machine gun", from the Western District of Washington's website.