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Kingpin Sentenced in Seattle Drug Bust | Seattle News
A major drug kingpin who flooded Seattle’s streets—including dangerous neighborhoods like “The Jungle”—with meth, cocaine, fentanyl, and heroin just got a ten-year prison sentence. Octavio Salazar Palma, a U.S. citizen, ran a massive operation that netted nearly $3 million in drugs alone in March 2025, including 100 pounds of meth, over 100 kilos of cocaine, and 250,000 fentanyl pills. Despite busts and seizures across multiple states, he kept pushing product until his arrest. Prosecutors revealed he was purely profit-driven, with tens of thousands in cash and luxury assets seized. The…
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