A man who was caught hauling more than 100 pounds of methamphetamine from California to Oregon in two separate stops within a 10-month period was sentenced Thursday to six and a half years in federal prison.

State police first stopped Jason Michael Nord in May 2023 on Interstate 5 northbound in Lane County and seized 57 pounds of methamphetamine found in the trunk of his rented orange Renegade Jeep.

The drugs were located in 60 individually-wrapped packages inside a black duffel bag, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Sax.

State police seized the drugs but did not arrest Nord to avoid disrupting a broader federal investigation into a Mexico-based drug trafficking organization, Sax said.

Ten months later on March 1, 2024, state police stopped a white rental Jeep, also driven

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