A former Portland man who led a large-scale drug-trafficking organization that distributed more than 100,000 counterfeit prescription pills with fentanyl across Oregon and Washington was sentenced Friday to 11 years and three months in prison.
A federal prosecutor said Luis Antonio Beltran Arredondo, 35, and his crew laundered millions of dollars of drug proceeds through the small Mazatlán Beauty Salon in Tualatin, even after the business had been officially dissolved.
He also concealed the drug profits through the outright purchases of nine residential properties valued at more than $4.6 million in Portland, Beaverton, Vancouver, North Las Vegas and Henderson, Nevada, over eight months, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Sax…