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A 24-year-old heroin dealer who sold another man the dose of heroin that ended up killing him was sentenced today to more than six years in prison.

Rolin Guillermo Arteaga-Soto pleaded guilty to delivering heroin to Doug Densem, 24, who overdosed on it last June. Densem had returned to his parents' Troutdale home from a drug-rehabilitation program about a week earlier. His mother awoke to find him dead.

Police were able to track down the dealer, Arteaga-Soto, through Densum's cell phone. Arteaga-Soto had 10 ounces of heroin in his possession -- enough for more than 280 hits...

Medford Area Drug and Gang Enforcement investigators arrested two Californians Tuesday who have been linked to a heroin trafficking ring.

The arrests yielded more than a pound of heroin, a half-pound of methamphetamine, two firearms and more than $20,000 in cash, Medford police Lt. Brett Johnson said.

"These suspects are involved in a drug trafficking organization and have made several trips to Southern Oregon to deliver heroin," Johnson said.

MADGE officers, working on intelligence gathered during a lengthy investigation, stopped a vehicle Tuesday in the 700 block of...

PORTLAND, Ore. – Guadalupe Navarro (a.k.a. “Mari Vasquez”), 50, of Tulare, California, was sentenced on January 20, 2011, by U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown to 78 months in prison, for methamphetamine trafficking and illegal re-entry after deportation.

On the evening of October 3, 2010, a Sherman County Sheriff’s Office deputy stopped defendant’s vehicle for a traffic infraction. Defendant provided false identification, and deputies ultimately discovered her true identity and an outstanding warrant for her arrest. During a search of her vehicle, deputies seized one pound of...

A drunken driver who steered into oncoming traffic and killed John Zupan — the founder of Zupan’s Markets — has been sentenced to 7½ years in prison.

Witnesses said Edy Reynoso-Ramirez was speeding and recklessly passing other cars with his 1998 Honda Civic when he crashed head-on into a motorcycle driven by Zupan. The incident happened near Marine Drive and 138th Avenue in Portland.

Zupan, 66, was out for a summer ride at about 8 p.m. Aug. 29. He had decades of experience riding motorcycles, and he owned eight of them. Traffic investigators noted that the speedometer on his...