A 44-year-old Spokane man who ran a commercial pill press operation and had enough fentanyl to make two million pills will spend 20 years in federal prison.

Timothy G. Maddox pleaded guilty June 12 to possession with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl. Federal prosecutors said that was enough fentanyl to kill everyone in Spokane County almost four times over.

Colin Jackson, acting special agent in charge of Seattle’s Homeland Security Investigations, called it one of Eastern Washington’s largest pill manufacturing cases.

“With this sentencing, Maddox is held accountable for endangering a residential neighborhood by operating a makeshift narcotics lab that housed enough fentanyl to produce over two million lethal pills,” Jackson said in a news release from Eastern Washing

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