A Mexican national was yesterday sentenced to 11 years and three months in a federal prison for conspiring to distribute drugs in Oregon and to launder money through his fiancée’s beauty salon in Tualatin.

Huge Amounts of Drugs and Cash Were Seized by DEA Agents

Luis Antonio Beltran Arredondo (35) is the 12 th and final member of a drug trafficking organization that operated in Oregon, Washington, and California, where agents seized 41 pounds of methamphetamine, 26 kilograms of heroin, 115,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl, and in excess of $348,000. The operation occurred between October 21 and February 2022.

According to court documents, Arredondo and his girlfriend, Jacqueline Paola Rodriguez Barrientos, laundered the proceeds from drug sales through her Mazatlán

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