SEATTLE — A Federal Way man has been sentenced to six years in prison and three years of probation in connection with a 2014 hash oil explosion in Puyallup.
The U.S. attorney’s office says Kevin Weeks, 25, directed others to use highly flammable butane gas to make hash oil. Authorities say that after the explosion in Puyallup, Weeks threated an associate to keep him working and to attempt to hide his involvement.
Weeks pleaded guilty in April to endangering human life while manufacturing controlled substances and related drug charges.
During the sentencing Friday, U.S. District Judge Ronald B. Leighton said what disturbed him about the case was an apparent disregard for human life. The judge said manufacturing hash oil is dangerous, but threatening other people to do it for you is worse.
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