ROSEBURG, Ore. – According to a press release from Oregon State Police dated September 26, 2024, a trooper recently stopped 100 pounds of fentanyl-laced pills from reaching illicit markets in Portland.
At about 1 p.m. on September 24, 2024, a Trooper stopped a silver Volkswagen SUV for a traffic violation on Interstate 5 in Douglas County. The trooper suspected possible criminal activity and received consent to search the vehicle.
The search yielded 100 pounds of fentanyl-laced pills – approximately 450,000 individual doses – from inside the vehicle. The suspect admitted that the pills were destined for the Portland market.
Due to the large quantity of fentanyl that was seized, Gustavo Alonso Franco Valenzuela, 32, of Los Angeles, California, was arrested and federally charged with delivery of a controlled substance.
The Oregon State Police-Domestic Highway Enforcement Initiative is supported by the Oregon-Idaho High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area.
The Oregon-Idaho HIDTA program is an Office of National Drug Control Policy sponsored counterdrug grant program that coordinates with and provides funding resources to multi-agency drug enforcement initiatives, including the OSP-DHE Initiative.