A Lakewood man who used social media to post glamorous pictures of what he presented as the drug-dealing life was sentenced Tuesday in U.
District Court in Tacoma, according to a U. Department of Justice news release. Joel Adrian Valencia Rosas, 28, received a year prison sentence for leading a South Sound drug-trafficking organization that distributed cocaine, fentanyl and marijuana to places across the country, including Georgia and Ohio and in Western Washington, the release said.
He was indicted in December following an investigation that led to the arrest of Valencia Rosas along with several others between years old, according to the release.
The investigation turned up almost 52 kilograms of cocaine, over 23 kilograms of fentanyl pills and kilograms of marijuana.
Case records indicate Valencia Rosas began distributing drugs in at least The release said that Valencia Rosas used social media, beginning with Snapchat until his account was closed in December and then with Instagram, to recruit young people into his ring. He continued posting through Attorney Tessa M.
