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Portland police, FBI to target fentanyl dealers in public housing, outside treatment clinics
Oregon live ^ | Aug 26, 2026 | Maxine Bernstein

Posted on 08/29/2026 3:17:04 PM PDT by NoLibZone

After three years of focused federal prosecution of armed drug dealers in downtown Portland, Oregon’s U.S. Attorney Scott E. Bradford announced Tuesday that law enforcement officers will now expand their efforts to target dealers operating in public housing and outside drug treatment clinics.

“We saw fentanyl dealers being arrested in the morning, being released in the afternoon and back out on the streets in the evening, dealing this death and poison to our community members,” he said.

Bradford described the multi-agency partnership as an “innovative solution” to the state’s fentanyl crisis.

“If you talk about a lot of street-level dealers being arrested and prosecuted federally, that doesn’t happen everywhere within the United States,” he said.

For the past three years, an FBI agent, a federal prosecutor and members of the Portland Police Bureau’s bike squad and Central Precinct’s Neighborhood Response Team have conducted late-night missions targeting downtown drug dealers.

During that time, more than 100 people have been charged with drug trafficking in the city’s downtown. Law enforcement has seized more than 220 pounds of fentanyl, 40 guns and $1.3 million in drug proceeds, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.

More than 80% of those charged were undocumented immigrants from Honduras and Mexico who face deportation after serving their sentences, the office said.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: fentanyl; illegals; portland

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More than 80% of those charged were undocumented immigrants from Honduras and Mexico who face deportation after serving their sentences, the office said.
1 posted on 08/29/2026 3:17:04 PM PDT by NoLibZone
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To: NoLibZone

And just like that — law enforcement decided to enforce some laws? What new devilry is this?


2 posted on 08/29/2026 3:18:49 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell warned us about Rivers of Blood. Well, I sure hope they're coming. It's the only fix.)
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To: NoLibZone

Just watched a Youtube arrest video of ONE PERP CAR carrying enough fentanyl to kill 16 million people. Sounds like a problem.


3 posted on 08/29/2026 3:19:51 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: NoLibZone

Why is [N]ICE not there?


4 posted on 08/29/2026 3:21:47 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: ClearCase_guy
more than 100 people have been charged with drug trafficking

Will the woke judges and mayor and governor side with the perps and set up a law refusing law enforcement to arrest them? California is like an older brother to Oregon.

5 posted on 08/29/2026 3:25:45 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: NoLibZone

We busted a guy selling heroin at the methadone clinic in my precinct. He was hanging around the place out on the sidewalk maybe 50 yards away. The dumb sob let two white boys get right up next to him. From different directions. He just stood there.


6 posted on 08/29/2026 3:29:03 PM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: NoLibZone

Here’s a loophole. Remember AOC said shoplifters should not be arrested or held because people often do not have money to pay rent or buy food so need to steal bread to give to their families to keep from starving.

So cutting off the drug dealing revenue stream could put children’s lives at risk from starvation.

Watch her touch her head to encourage us all to think of her solution coming in her talk. “Let’s think about it.”
https://www.the-sun.com/news/1129423/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-nyc-surge-crime-coronavirus/


7 posted on 08/29/2026 3:30:18 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: NoLibZone

100%!
Honduran illegals “Hondos” are the majority portion of the fentanyl pushers on the West coast.

ICE must get those human filth deported ASAP.


8 posted on 08/29/2026 4:11:01 PM PDT by dadgum (Fight to WIN or do not fight at all)
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To: NoLibZone

I hope the FBI is also looking into the judges who cut these criminals loose. Are such judges on the payroll of the drug gangs?


9 posted on 08/29/2026 4:14:35 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Deus vult!)
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To: ClearCase_guy
And just like that — law enforcement decided to enforce some laws?

Reminds me of working with SFPD some years before I retired as an IT engineer. I was doing ride-alongs with a police lieutenant in San Francisco while testing experimental digital radio communications for police laptop computers. We parked in various neighborhoods at night to test reception. While parked in a bad neighborhood near public housing projects, we observed black gang members dealing drugs. They knew we were there, and waved to us while smiling, trading drugs for cash to people in cars stopping by. The lieutenant says nothing new, it is what it is.

10 posted on 08/29/2026 5:28:47 PM PDT by roadcat ( )
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To: ClearCase_guy

Trump appointed him……something must be going on behind the scenes for gov Kotex and the Islamocommies to permit this.
Trump must know something that Oregon Islamocommies don’t want anyone to know.


11 posted on 08/29/2026 6:20:07 PM PDT by doc maverick
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“ICE must get those human filth deported ASAP.”
The Islamocommie cities in Oregon are not cooperating with ICE.
Some filth is being removed by ICE despite the worthless police.
Gov. Kotex, Waxface Wyden and Moron Merkley need to be TRASHED, but the mail in fraud in Portland is ENTRENCHED.


12 posted on 08/29/2026 6:38:17 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: NoLibZone

Smells of racism.


13 posted on 08/29/2026 7:13:28 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (עומד לצד ישראל. The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald)
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