Oregon played a pivotal role in the recent crackdown on an international drug trafficking cartel that has distributed hundreds of thousands of lethal drugs worth millions of dollars locally, to neighboring California, and primarily to Washington state.

Drug traffickers concentrated their distribution network in homeless encampments. They were busted open on 29 May when law enforcement officers swept into Beaverton in Oregon, Woodlake in California, and Washington state’s Everett, Federal Way, Issaquah, Kent, Pacific, Seattle, Tukwila, and Vancouver.

Kilograms of Lethal Drugs, Large Quantities of Cash, Caches of Firearms Seized

Sixteen search warrants were executed and investigators seized 18 kilograms of methamphetamine, more than 57,000 fentanyl pills, more than seven kilograms of coca

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