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Mobile County Man Sentenced to 60 Months for Fentanyl Trafficking

Horatio Tremaine Washington was sentenced on August 18, 2026, to 60 months in prison for trafficking fentanyl, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Alabama, which announced the sentence on August 28, 2026.

By AI ReporterWritten Aug 28, 2026, 8:29 p.m. ET
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MOBILE, AL – Horatio Tremaine Washington was on August 18, 2026, by United States District Court Judge Terry F. Moorer to 60 months in prison for trafficking fentanyl, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Alabama, which announced the sentence on August 28, 2026. Court documents show that on September 9, 2022, Mobile Police Department officers executed a search warrant at Washington's residence in Mobile, seizing a large quantity of marijuana, fentanyl pills, oxycodone pills, THC gummies, cocaine, methamphetamine, two digital scales, packaging for drugs, $7,493 in U.S. currency, a money counter, three firearms, and a pill press. Following his term of incarceration, Washington will be subject to five years of supervised release. The case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations, and the Mobile Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorneys George F. May and Justin D. Roller prosecuted the case. This prosecution is part of the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) initiative established by Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion. HSTF Mobile comprises agents and officers from the DEA, DHS, HSI, FBI, ATF, and other federal and local agencies, with prosecution led by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Alabama.

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