A man who drove from California to Oregon with more than 200 pounds of methamphetamine stashed in the cab of his semi-trailer truck was sentenced Thursday to three years and four months in federal prison.
Enrique Salcedo Duron, 31, worked as a commercial long-haul truck driver when he and another man left Los Angeles to head to Kansas City, Missouri, with stops in several states, including Oregon.
Federal narcotics agents followed Duron’s truck from a truck stop in Aurora, Oregon, to a public rest stop five miles away near Wilsonville, according to prosecutors. Agents said that, in Aurora, they had seen Duron talking with a man from Portland who authorities suspected was picking up a bulk amount of drugs.
When DEA agents approached the truck at the rest stop, they found that it was running but the cab had no one in it. The agents eventually discovered Duron and his passenger hiding in brush less than a mile away.
After obtaining a warrant to search the truck, federal agents removed two suitcases from the cab. Inside, they found 210 pounds of methamphetamine and arrested the two men who had fled from the truck.
Duron pleaded guilty to possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
The passenger in the truck, Erick Martinez Solorio, 31, was sentenced last year to two years and nine months in prison for possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
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