The man who was caught on Thursday on almost a dozen drug and weapons charges was pardoned by former Gov. Jay Inslee in 2019.
The Lynwood Times, a newspaper in Snohomish County, was the first to report that 54-year-old Percy Levy had been arrested.
The Snohomish Regional Drug Task Force caught the person after looking into it for 16 months. Police in Snohomish County said they caught the suspect during a traffic stop in Everett.
Later, a warrant was served at the suspect’s home, where police said they found 556 grams of fentanyl, 2,818 grams of powder cocaine, and 14.7 grams of rock cocaine. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency says that’s enough fentanyl to kill about 278,000 people. They say that just 2 milligrams of the drug is enough to kill someone.
The house also had packaging materials, a digital scale, and a gun that the police searched.
The suspect was caught with a gun that was not his, a stolen gun, and multiple counts of having a controlled substance on him with the plan to deliver them.
Online records from the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office Corrections Bureau show that Levy was charged with 11 Class B felonies. A $1.5 million bond is holding him.
A report from the state’s Clemency and Pardons Board says that Inslee pardoned Levy in 2019.
The Lynwood Times says that Levy has been in trouble with the law since he was 13 years old. He went to jail for 17 years after being caught robbing a drug house in 2002.
The 2019 decision by Inslee about Levy came after the 2021 decision in State v. Blake, which changed the status of possession of controlled drugs from a felony to a misdemeanor, according to the paper.
According to the newspaper, Levy worked hard to change the criminal justice system for six years after he was released from prison.
He opened a car dealership in Everett called Redemption Auto and worked as a community outreach expert for the Washington Defender Association. Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County has Levy as its manager on its board.
