Spokane Valley Man Arrested After a Joint FBI, DEA, Spokane Valley and Steven’s County Drug Trafficking Investigation

Spokane, Washington - First Assistant United States Attorney Pete Serrano announced that on Friday July 10, 2026, Jack Alexander Gentry, 45, of Spokane Valley, was arrested after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging him with multiple counts of distribution of fentanyl and methamphetamine. Gentry faces a ten-year mandatory minimum jail sentence based upon the quantities of drugs he has been alleged to have distributed.

At the time of his arrest, agents located and seized 14 firearms one of which has been identified as a personally manufactured gun or ghost gun, countless rounds of ammunition, magazines, gun parts and approximately $28,000 in cash, as well as distribution amounts of fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine.

This case is being investigated by the FBI, the Spokane Valley Police Department, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Stevens County Sheriff's Office. Gentry is currently in federal custody pending resolution of his federal charges.

This investigation 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 Seattle comprises agents and officers from Homeland Security Investigations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), The United States Marshals Service (USMS), the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigations (IRS-CI), the United States Secret Service (USSS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service, with the prosecution being led by the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Washington.

An indictment is merely an allegation, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

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