Dual Loyalty: A Family with a Seattle Public Schools Legacy Poured Fentanyl and Weapons Into the Community They Claim to Serve
Preaching youth safety in public, but sent the baby of the family to meet a fent plug in AZ. The feds caught her with 100 boats: this is the Jackson DTO case: We've got wiretaps & new indictment
“Your dumbass daughter just got me hit again. She gave the plug all my money and two of my watches and only got a f-cking boat (referring to 1,000 fentanyl pills),” Marquis “Bounce” Jackson barked at his father, Mandel Jackson, in a call Feds intercepted after a botched Arizona drug deal.
Mandel relayed the news to his wife Marty Jackson in the background.
“She done gave the plug all the money and two watches and got out with one boat…(pause)…. I know babe.”
“She don’t know what the fuck,” Marty Jackson said of her daughter. “She don’t do that type of shit”.
Background: After Seattle Public Schools kicked police off campus in 2021, they turned to community activists and non-profits to provide campus security. One such contractor was Marty Jackson, the daughter of former board member Betty Patu, brother of former Roosevelt coach Saul Patu. Jackson and her “Be Safe Bros” team provided youth safety services at Rainier Beach and Garfield High Schools — until, that is, Marty was arrested and federally indicted in a multinational drug trafficking prosecution in October, 2024. While collecting public funds to protect kids, she was actually running a guns and drugs cartel out of her home, and Feds say three generations (and all five living at her Kent address) of the Jackson family are responsible for an “immense” fentanyl trafficking org. This is the story of the indictment and of Marty Jackson’s past and current ties inside SPS. Next, we’ll cover the integration of a criminal organization into public non-profit work. - J425
MARICOPA COUNTY, AZ — The Arizona sun was still high over the Phoenix Marriott on August 9, 2024, when Miracle Patu-Jackson, daughter of Seattle non-violence activist Marty Jackson, pulled into the parking lot in a sleek black Porsche.
In the backseat: a small child, an innocent passenger in a luxury vehicle serving as courier for one of the Northwest’s most prolific fentanyl empires: the Jackson Drug Trafficking Organization.
Miracle, then 21, was the same woman who sat in Seattle Public Schools’ boardrooms advising on the $297-million design of a new Rainier Beach High School.
But today she was there to meet the fentanyl “plug”—a supplier with ties to the Mexican market. Miracle wasn’t pleased to be forced into action — her boyfriend had argued with Marquis Jackson, then 30, against using the family’s baby to conduct the major fentanyl deal. But Marquis insisted.
But by the time the Porsche’s engine cooled, Miracle had made a rookie mistake that would ripple through federal wiretaps and ignite a firestorm of familial criticism.
Miracle handed the plug the entire $50,000 buy-money plus two luxury watches upfront.
In exchange, she walked away with just a single “boat”—the street term for 1,000 fentanyl pills.
It was a move that prosecutors say proved she was “new to drug trafficking.” But it left her brother — the organization’s leader — Marquis Jackson, absolutely livid.
“Your dumbass daughter [Miracle] just got me hit again because she gave the plug all my money and two of my watches and only got a fucking boat (referring to 1,000 fentanyl pills),” Marquis barked at their father, Mandel Jackson, in a call intercepted shortly after the botched deal. Mandel is heard relaying the news to his wife Marty Jackson in the background.
“She done gave the plug all the money and two watches and got out with one boat…(pause)…. I know babe.”
In the background, the celebrated anti-violence activist Matelita “Marty” Jackson, could be heard excusing her daughter.
“She don’t know what the fuck,” Marty said of her dsughter. “She don’t do that type of shit”.
Mandel asked, “How much cheese she give him?” Marquis replied, “50.”
Tyrell Lewis, Miracle’s boyfriend, later told Mandel he wasn’t about to let her “handle this situation again”.
He noted that Miracle “doesn’t want to handle this” .
“I don’t know this plug but I know the game, and we usually try to keep family away from the plug,” Lewis said.
On the outside, Miracle was a member of the Rainier Beach High School design team.
Inside the three generation family business, she was a “dumbass” courier making rookie mistakes for an empire charged with interstate fentanyl and weapons trafficking.
But her courier work wasn’t done yet. And the decision to throw the baby in the mix would ultimately lead to the first domino falling in the federal takedown of the Jackson Drug Trafficking Organization
The next day, Marquis set up a deal with the source to bring the remainder of the pills from the prior deal. The source agreed.
Despite his criticism of her the day before, Marquis again wanted to put his little sister in the mix. He called Mandel and told him to tell Miracle to go meet with the plug. Minutes later, agents intercepted Mandel telling Miracle to “take care of business.”
Miracle and Tyrell jumped in the Black Porsche and met the plug. Thirty minutes later, Miracle parked the Porsche and wheeled a black roller suitcase up to their hotel room.
Agents say Miracle and Tyrell then counted the pills in the room because 15 minutes later, Marquis texted the source, claiming to have received just half of what he’d ordered.
Ten minutes later, Tyrell and Miracle left the hotel with the roller suitcase in tow. Shortly after, the cops pulled them over and obtained a warrant to search their vehicle. Inside the vehicle, cops found the roller suitcase stuffed with 100,000 fentanyl pills. An hour later, law enforcement intercepted a call between
