Portland Nurse Charged With Trafficking Heroin From Vancouver

PORTLAND, OR – Rene Elene Griffin Nunn is a registered nurse. She is also a defendant in a drug trafficking case after the Drug Enforcement Agency arrested her.

The 59-year-old Nunn, who works at Adventist Medical Center.

The U.S, Attorney's Office in Portland says that she trafficked heroin into Portland from Vancouver, where she lives.

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According to prosecutors, from Sept. 2017 and Jan. 2018, Nunn discussed with people whose names have not been released the prices of heroin and methamphetamines.

Prosecutors say that one month later, she drove from Vancouver to Portland with about 94 grams of heroin in her purse with the intent of selling it.

The indictment charges her with one count of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances.

Nunn, who faces up to 20 years in prison, is scheduled to go on trial next Jan. 29, 2019 though trial dates are often pushed back.

Photo via Multnomah County Sheriff's Office.