SEATTLE — Nineteen people have been charged in a bust of a Sinaloa Cartel-connected drug ring operating in western Washington, law enforcement announced Monday.

The ring would make sales from Whidbey Island south to Tacoma and Lacey.

Drug traffickers would transport meth, fentanyl, cocaine and heroin up through Mexico and into California, then on into other states; at times using a semi-truck to make the deliveries, according to investigators.

Traffickers managed to smuggle massive quantities of the lethal drugs into Washington state.

In an operation between the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington, the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Department of Homeland Security, law enforcement seized hundreds of pounds of meth and fentanyl that could have yielded 6.9 mill

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