(The Center Square) – A Southern California drug trafficker was sentenced to federal prison this week, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon announced this week.
Pedro Keny Verganza, 39, of Los Angeles County, California, received a federal prison sentence of 75 months plus three years of supervised release.
Albany Police Department investigators received information in December 2019 that someone named “Pelucha” was the supply source for illegal narcotics transported by a California-based drug trafficking organization from California to Oregon for sale and redistribution.
A deeper investigation found that, in mid-February 2020, a courier working with or on Pelucha’s behalf was expected to go to a fast-food restaurant in Albany, Oregon, to sell methamphetamine and heroin.
Law enforcement officers observed the courier on February 15, 2020. They saw someone whom they later determined was Verganza arrive at the fast-food restaurant with another person.
Law enforcement searched their vehicle and found a cardboard box containing “three large heat-sealed and shrink-wrapped packages containing approximately three and a quarter pounds of methamphetamine and two and a quarter pounds of heroin,” according to a release.