Portland dealer pleads guilty to running black-tar heroin ring that led to two overdose deaths in 2009 | OregonLive.com
Portland dealer pleads guilty to running black-tar heroin ring that led to two overdose deaths in 2009 | OregonLive.com: "Portland heroin dealer pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring with his brother-in-law to run a major black-tar heroin distribution ring that led to the overdose deaths last year of Patrick McGinnis and Joshua Reeves. The two dealers referred to their business as 'The Store,' operated the sales like a dispatch center and paid for sellers to be smuggled into the United States from Mexico, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathleen Bickers said. Share Under a plea deal, Jose I. Hernandez Flores, 38, nicknamed 'Pepe,' is expected to face 13 years in prison, then deportation. He'll be sentenced in November. His brother-in-law, Jose Luis Torres Rojas, 30, known as 'Chad,' is scheduled to plead guilty on Friday, and face an 11 1/2-year sentence, mostly due to his greater degree of cooperation."
