A former Portland man was sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison on Friday for leading a large-scale narcotics trafficking operation that delivered more than 100,000 counterfeit prescription pills laced with fentanyl across Oregon and Washington.
A federal prosecutor claims Luis Antonio Beltran Arredondo, 35, and his crew laundered millions of dollars in cocaine revenues via the modest Mazatlán Beauty Salon in Tualatin, even after the business was officially closed.
According to Assistant US Attorney Peter Sax, he also disguised narcotics income by purchasing nine residential homes for more than $4.6 million in Portland, Beaverton, Vancouver, North Las Vegas, and Henderson, Nevada, over an eight-month period…