PORT ANGELES — Prosecutors have filed charges of money laundering and conspiracy to deliver cocaine against a real estate agent accused of being part of an alleged drug ring.
Paul “P.I.” Pendergrass maintained his innocence Tuesday afternoon after Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Jill Landes filed the charges in Clallam County Superior Court.
“I have not committed a crime. I have not come anywhere close to committing a crime,” Pendergrass, 51, said.
He said the case against him is “purely circumstantial” and involves “some kind of loosely worded or stated conspiracy thing on money laundering.”
The two felony counts filed against Pendergrass come almost three weeks after drug task force agents arrested him and searched his Port Angeles home as part of an investigation into an alleged cocaine distribution ring.
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The rest of the story appears in Wednesday’s Peninsula Daily News Clallam County edition.
