Taking down a drug ring
Agents spend years uncovering a sophisticated operation

By Karen McCowan



Appeared in print: Sunday, Aug 23, 2009




Late last month, in a secret room inside a Eugene-area building, a federal prosecutor, a state police detective and a federal drug agent quietly finished a high-stakes game of blackout Bingo they’d begun more than two years earlier.

Posted on a wall was a large flow chart featuring driver’s license or jail booking photos of nearly three dozen local members of a Mexico-based drug trafficking ring. All but one of the faces was obscured with a large, red “Xâ€