Three men from Snohomish County are currently behind bars, following indictments on serious charges of drug trafficking that include cocaine and fentanyl, as well as firearm offenses—the heavy artillery in the war on drugs. As detailed in an announcement by Acting U.S. Attorney Teal Luthy Miller, the accused are Percy Levy, 54, Eugene Smith, 69, and Robert O. Baggett, 60. All three are locked up at the Federal Detention Center at SeaTac, with Levy and Smith waiting for their upcoming detention hearings.
Highlighting the seriousness of these charges, Magistrate Judge Michelle Peterson deemed it necessary to keep Baggett detained pending trial. Their lives are about to be permanently changed, with a jury trial scheduled before Judge John H. Chun on June 9, 2025. Tracking back to as early as 2023, Levy and Baggett were already known by the Snohomish Regional Drug Task Force for their dealings in cocaine. The indictment tells a tale of Baggett's engagement in selling narcotics and arms to undercover officers, while placing Levy at the helm of the operation.
This criminal enterprise started to unravel publicly on March 13, 2025, with the arrest of Smith. It was at a local casino, the scene of the crime, where Smith exchanged cocaine and fentanyl powder with an undercover officer. The ensuing investigation led authorities to Levy's residence, where they seized a veritable drug den's worth of cocaine and fentanyl, along with the accouterments of trafficking—scales, packaging materials, and a loaded gun that was as close as under the pillow of a bed.
The indictment clearly outlines the trio's prior run-ins with the law, ruling all three men prohibited from gun ownership. Levy's criminal record stretches back as far as 1988, including an over 19-year prison sentence in 2003—a sentence softened by conditional clemency in 2019. Baggett's history is a list of 14 felonies dating to 1983. Smith, meanwhile, skirts the shadow of a life sentence handed down in 1996, mitigated by a conditional commutation in 2020. Now they are all charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, among other crimes that could potentially send them back for mandatory minimums of a decade or life in prison.
The severity of the charges stacked against Levy includes a mandatory minimum of 15 years to life due to possession of controlled substances with the intent to distribute and possession of a firearm for drug trafficking. Both Levy and Baggett are also charged with illegal possession of a gun.
