Oregon City Man Gets 15 Years For 'Leadership' Role In Drug Ring

OREGON CITY, OR — A man from Oregon City will be changing his address to federal prison. A federal judge sentenced 50-year-old Victor Alvarez Farfan was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his "leadership role" in a drug ring that operated in the metro area.

Farfan will then receive 5 years supervised release after he gets out of prison. He was the last of 23 co-defendants to plead guilty. Farfan admitted to conspiring to possess and distribute drugs.

Prosecutors said that he'd had a "leadership role in a conspiracy to traffic large quantities of methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl from Mexico to sell in Oregon and Washington."

Court documents show that a drug cartel in Michoacan, Mexico provided Farfan about 20 kilograms of methamphetamine, two kilograms of fentanyl, and half a kilogram of heroin.

Farfan and his colleagues then resold the drugs around the region including in Portland, Gresham, Hillsboro, Hood River, and across the river in Tacoma. He was also charged with overseeing the manufacturing of crystal methamphetamine.

As part of his plea, Farfan also admitted entering the United States illegally.

It wasn't the first time he was convicted on drug charges and breaking immigration law.

In 2006, he was convicted of illegally entering the United States and drug trafficking. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison at the time though he only had to serve nine because he was returned to Mexico in 2015.