Anacortes High senior sentenced to prison on drug charges

An 18-year-old Anacortes High School senior who had been accused of selling cannabis to middle school students will spend time in prison after pleading guilty to reduced charges Thursday.

Wearing a purple dress shirt and orange pants, Zakeius Lavincent Hawkins told Skagit County Superior Court Judge Laura Riquelme that he is sorry for what he did.

"I'm really sorry to all the families that I've impacted," he said. "This won't happen again. I'm really sorry."

Hawkins, who has been held at the Skagit County Community Justice Center since his March 4 arrest, was sentenced to a year and a day in prison, with credit for the time he's already served, after pleading guilty to three reduced drug charges.

Those charges include possession of cannabis with intent to deliver and two counts of conspiracy to deliver cannabis to a minor.

Because Hawkins has no prior criminal convictions, the possession charge carries a maximum sentence of six months in prison, while the conspiracy charges each carry a maximum sentence of 12 months in prison.

Hawkins had previously been charged with possession in a school zone, which carries a maximum 24-month sentence, as well as two counts of delivery to a minor, each of which carries a maximum 68-month sentence, Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Trisha Johnson said.

She said Hawkins was facing "an extremely significant sentence," noting that prosecutors considered Hawkins' age and lack of criminal history in reducing the charges.

Because Hawkins was sentenced to more than 12 months, he will be sent to prison, where he will have access to more resources to transition back into the community when he is released, Hawkins' public defense attorney, Travis Schwartz, said.

Hawkins was initially charged with possessing fentanyl in a school zone and delivering fentanyl to a minor in a school zone after police field tests came back presumptively positive for both cannabis and fentanyl.

In late April, prosecutors dropped the fentanyl-related charges against Hawkins after state crime lab testing found no fentanyl on the confiscated cannabis.

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