A Tacoma man was sentenced Thursday for his high-level role in a multi-state drug trafficking conspiracy.

Michael Young Jr., 44, will spend seven years in prison for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington announced.

Young was part of a group that distributed more than 800,000 fentanyl pills throughout the U.S., including in Arizona, Texas, Missouri, Montana, and Georgia.

“Every pill you moved was a loaded gun — the sentence needs to hold you accountable for the lives you endangered,” U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead said at the sentencing hearing.

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