The operation “marks one of the largest takedowns of a drug trafficking organization in the history of the District of Oregon,” U.S. Attorney Billy Williams said.
U.S. authorities said Wednesday they completed drug-trafficking busts in Oregon that involved an international network of couriers, dealers and stash-house operators who smuggled methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine worth about $15 million from Mexico to Portland.
Mexican kingpins smuggled the drugs to two Oregon distributors, who then spread it to stash houses, dealers, couriers and money launderers, authorities said. At one point, operatives in Portland were filling weekly orders from customers for more than 75 pounds of methamphetamine and 55 pounds of heroin, he said.The organization would routinely change the location of stash houses, rotate vehicles and phones, and pay individual couriers to take time off if they were nearing detection by law enforcement, the prosecutor said.
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