PORTLAND, Ore. – A Mexican national living illegally in the U.S. was sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine in Oregon.
Fernando Lombera Gonzalez, 34, received 63 months in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute more than three pounds of meth. According to court documents, a federal agent contacted Gonzalez in late May 2024 and arranged a controlled purchase of about 1,350 grams of methamphetamine.
On June 1, 2024, Gonzalez traveled to Salem. Drug Enforcement Administration investigators watched him retrieve meth from a second car before delivering about 1,377 grams of the drug, roughly three pounds, in exchange for payment…