71-year-old Portland drug dealer admits his illicit life had ‘gotten out of hand,’ accepts prison term

During a raid on a Northeast Portland home last year, Multnomah County sheriff’s deputies discovered an unusual hiding place: a vintage Coca-Cola machine that contained cocaine, fentanyl, cash, six firearms, ammunition and body armor — but no soda.

The homeowner, Herbert Lee Streeter, 71, was sentenced Monday to five years in prison after admitting to investigators that his drug-dealing to people in his neighborhood near Northeast 84th Avenue had “gotten out of hand,” according to court records.

U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut accepted the sentence jointly recommended by the prosecutor and Streeter’s defense attorney after Streeter apologized to his family…

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