Mobile County Man Sentenced to 60 Months’ Imprisonment for Fentanyl Trafficking

MOBILE, AL - Horatio Tremaine Washington was sentenced on August 18, 2026, by United States District Court Judge Terry F. Moorer to 60 months in prison for trafficking fentanyl.

Court documents show that on September 9, 2022, Mobile Police Department officers executed a search warrant at the defendant's residence in Mobile. The search warrant resulted in the seizure of items to include a large quantity of Marijuana, Fentanyl pills, Oxycodone pills, THC gummies, Cocaine, Methamphetamine, two digital scales, packaging for drugs, $7,493 in US currency, a money counter, three firearms and a pill press. Following his term of incarceration, Washington will be subject to five years of supervised release.

The case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations and the Mobile Police Department.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys George F. May and Justin D. Roller prosecuted the case on behalf of the United States.

This prosecution is part of the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) initiative established by Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion. The HSTF is a whole-of-government partnership dedicated to eliminating criminal cartels, foreign gangs, transnational criminal organizations, and human smuggling and trafficking rings operating in the United States and abroad. Through historic interagency collaboration, the HSTF directs the full might of United States law enforcement towards identifying, investigating, and prosecuting the full spectrum of crimes committed by these organizations, which have long fueled violence and instability within our borders. In performing this work, the HSTF places special emphasis on investigating and prosecuting those engaged in child trafficking or other crimes involving children. The HSTF further utilizes all available tools to prosecute and remove the most violent criminal aliens from the United States. HSTF Mobile comprises agents and officers from the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and other federal and local agencies with the prosecution being led by the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Alabama.