Police tracked one cellphone number they suspected was used by several people transporting fentanyl from California to Portland, leading to the stops of two cars, four arrests and the seizure of several bricks of the powdered drug branded with the usurped logo of the San Francisco 49ers, prosecutors say.

The first arrests came in January after Portland police obtained a warrant for the geolocation of a cellphone number used by someone nicknamed “Josh,” according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Cassady Adams.

The coordinates for the so-called “dispatcher” phone showed it near Holladay Park and then traveling south on Interstate 5 toward California.

On Jan. 28, police tracked the phone heading back up the freeway in Oregon and officers stopped a black Hyundai on Stark Street in Portland, Adams

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