A man from Seattle, Washington, was sentenced to 35 years in prison for his role in a transnational drug trafficking organization and had a stash of illegal drugs seized in Scottsdale, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania announced Friday.
Bryce Hill, 28, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan after a trial in September 2025.
Hill was among 35 charged “for their participation in a domestic and international narcotics and money laundering conspiracy involving substantial quantities of fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine,” according to a press release.
His sentencing came after the sentences of the other 32 people implicated.
The 28-year-old defendant in the trial was a member of the Monarrez Drug Trafficking Organization, a Phoenix-based organization that illegally supplied “millions of fentanyl pills” and other drugs between August 2021 and June 2023.
On December 25, 2022, law enforcement seized 28 kilograms of fentanyl pills, 7.5 kilograms of fentanyl powder, 3 kilograms of cocaine, 48 kilograms of methamphetamine, and 20 weapons from “a short-term rental property” in Scottsdale, Arizona.
A jury in Hill’s trial determined that he conspired to distribute and had at least five kilos of cocaine, 400 grams of fentanyl, and 500 grams of methamphetamine.
The Scottsdale Police Department contributed to the extensive drug trafficking investigation.
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