PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Mexican national has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison after his conviction on charges that he led a drug ring that supplied methamphetamine to east Portland for five months.
U.S. District Court Judge Anna J. Brown has sentenced 27-year-old Rafael Romero-Duarte after his October conviction.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office says the investigation involved a five-month wiretap of several telelphones and an undercover operation that led to Romero-Duarte’s arrest.
Romero-Duarte was alleged to have been the leader of an operation of drug runners, stash houses and cash couriers who managed to distribute between two and eight pounds of methamphetamine to Portland between November 2008 and April 2009.