A Washington man who was arrested almost a dozen drug and weapon costs on Thursday was from former Gov. Jay Insley in 2019.
The arrest of Percy Levy, 54, was first reported in the Lynwood TimesA newspaper Snohomish County.
The Snohomish Regional Drug Task Force did the arrest after an investigation of 16 months. The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office said the suspect was arrested during a traffic stop in Everett.
Later an order in the house of the suspect was served, where authorities said that detectives 2,818 grams of powder cocaine, 14.7 grams of rock cocaine and 556 grams of fentanyl. That is enough fentanyl to kill around 278,000, according to the US Drug Enforcement Agency, which says that only 2 milligrams of the substance can be deadly.
Detectives also found packaging material, a digital scale and a gun in the house.
Former Washington Gov. Jay Insley granted Clemency to Levy, and others, in 2019 while he was still in office. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
The suspect was arrested illegal possession of firearmpossession of stolen firearm and multiple counts of possession of a regulated substance with the intention of supplying.
Levy was accused of 11 class B crimes, according to Online prisoner records From the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office Corrections Bureau. He is held on a bond of $ 1.5 million.
The Sheriff office said that after an investigation by the suspect, cocaine was found from the suspect’s house. (Marcus Brandt/Picture Alliance via Getty Images, File)
SLEE granted Levy Clemency in 2019, according to a State document Clemency and Pardons Board.
Levy has a criminal history that goes back to when he was 13 years old, according to the Lynwood Times. He spent 17 years in prison after an arrest of 2002 for a drug robbery.
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Inslee’s decision about Levy in 2019 came after the 2021 from State v. Blake verraking that was classified again Property of regulated substances The newspaper reported as a crime.
In the six years after his claim, Levy devoted himself to the reform of criminal law, according to the newspaper.
He worked as a community specialist for the Washington Defender Association and founded Redemption Auto, a car dealer in Everett. Levy is also a treasurer in the sign of the Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County chapter.
The Sheriff office said the case is still being investigated.
