From Oregonians for Immigration Reform:

June 30, 2009

OFIR members and supporters:

Kudos to the South Coast Interagency Narcotics team and the U.S. Attorneys Office for another drug bust.

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UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
District of Oregon

PRESS ROOM

June 23, 2009

Mexican National Receives Seven Years for Growing Marijuana

Defendant manufactured approximately 3,654 marijuana plants

Eugene, Ore. – Ramiro Ballesteros-Elorza, 33, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael R. Hogan to 84 months imprisonment and a five-year term of supervised release. Ballesteros-Elorza had earlier entered a guilty plea to manufacturing approximately 3,654 marijuana plants.

While conducting a coordinated marijuana eradication operation, the DEA, Douglas County Interagency Narcotics Team, Oregon State Police, and the South Coast Interagency Narcotics Team discovered a covert marijuana grow operation in a remote forested area of Coos County. After a period of clandestine surveillance by law enforcement officers, a search warrant was executed on the marijuana garden, and defendant Ballesteros-Elorza was arrested at a campsite in the grow. Items seized from the crime scene included a Mac-90 semiautomatic rifle with a loaded 30 round magazine, cell phones, drug records and a disposable camera with film depicting the defendant and others standing amongst the marijuana plants while holding the assault rifle.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kirk Engdall.

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