Oregon Police Made One of the Biggest Fentanyl Busts in State History Then Released the Ringleader HotAir
So apparently what happened here is that prosecutors planned to file a bunch of charges stemming from the drug bust but for reasons that still aren t clear they didn t get around to it in time and that meant Community Justice had nothing to hold him on. They couldn t even hang on to him for 24 hours.
Friday morning a judge issued a new arrest warrant for Funez who, not surprisingly, failed to show up for court. He had previously come to Portland from Sacramento but is originally from Honduras and no one has any idea where he is now. I don t know what kind of time he s facing for having 50 pounds of fentanyl but I m guessing he ll never be back to Portland unless police get lucky.
AdvertisementBetancurt, the runner in the operation, was also approved for immediate release. But by some miracle he was held in jail by the U.S. Marshals Service and didn t get away. Why the Marshals didn t also get to Funez isn t clear.
As I said above, Portland s revival still has a ways to go
via hotair.com