SPOKANE, Wash. – A Spokane resident has been sentenced to twenty years in prison and five years of court supervision for his role in a commercial pill operation in Hillyard that had supplies to make over two million fentanyl pills containing a lethal dose.

The Eastern District of Washington United States Attorney announced the sentencing of 44-year-old Timothy Gary Maddox in a press release today that described his involvement in the operation.

Maddox ran the operation with co-defendant Nicholas Adams, whose house hosted the pill press machine and the supplies.

They had bought a commercial pill press from China and mixed powder fentanyl and cutting agents to make their own fentanyl pills for bulk distribution to the community.

The machine and supplies were seized in November 2023 after

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