A 54-year-old Federal Way man was sentenced this week in U.S. District Court in Seattle to three years in prison for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy, Acting U.S. Attorney Charle Neil Floyd announced.
Leonardo Rojas Cruz was indicted in May 2025 following a wiretap investigation. Rojas Cruz was a redistributor of cocaine and methamphetamine, ordering up multiple pound quantities of the drugs.
“In March 2025 alone, law enforcement seized 100 pounds of methamphetamine, 111 kilos of cocaine, 19 kilos of fentanyl powder, 250,000 fentanyl pills, and four kilos of heroin as they investigated this drug ring and a related one,” Floyd stated in a news release. “The street value of those narcotics is nearly $3 million — but the damage to our community due to addiction, crime and deaths far surpasses that number.”
On May 29, 2025, law enforcement executed 16 search warrants in Federal Way, Vancouver, Everett, Pacific, Tukwila, Kent, Issaquah, Seattle, Woodlake, California and Beaverton, Oregon. Investigators seized more than seven kilograms of cocaine, 18 kilograms of methamphetamine, more than 57,000 fentanyl pills and 17 firearms. They also seized more than $353,000 in cash.
Rojas Cruz has a prior federal conviction for drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Washington. In 1991, he was sentenced to more than five years in prison. Nevertheless, he returned to drug trafficking for an extended period of time, according to a release from the The United States Department of Justice.
Several of his co-conspirators have been sentenced.
The investigation was led by the FBI, Seattle Police Department and Drug Enforcement Administration with assistance from the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas program, Homeland Security Investigations, and Washington National Guard Counterdrug Program. Investigators also worked with the Oregon State Police and Clark County, Washington County Sheriff’s Office.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Casey Conzatti and Brian Wynne.
