Drug Cartels in Oregon: Violence in the Northwest
06.22.2013 at 02:07pm
Drug Cartels in Oregon: Violence in the Northwest
By Les Zaitz, The Oregonian
June 21, 2013
…Perhaps most unnerving, cartel-connected traffickers lash out in violence to control territory, settle debts or warn rivals — not just in Mexico, but here in the Northwest. Police suspect a cartel is behind the roadside execution early last year of a trafficker near Salem. They think cartel operatives shot two California drug dealers whose bodies were found buried in the sage northeast of Klamath Falls last fall. They also believe a cartel ordered a 2007 hit in which a trafficker and four friends were lined up on the floor of a Vancouver rental home and shot in the head…
