Oregon-based drug runner trafficked pounds of heroin on behalf of boss in Mexico, police say

Narcotics officers on Wednesday arrested an alleged drug runner with almost a pound of heroin and over $1,500 in cash, police say.

Brayan Alberto Reyes Ramales, 24, is accused of two counts of delivering heroin and two counts of unlawful possession of heroin after the Westside Interagency Narcotics Team served a search warrant on Ramales’s travel trailer in the 13900 block of Southeast Woodward Street, in Portland.

A probable cause affidavit filed by prosecutors alleges that Ramales told investigators that he was sent to Portland from California at the bidding of a boss in Mexico, and that he’s sold large quantities of heroin to roughly nine people in the metro area ever since. Court records don’t say when he moved to Portland…

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