Luis Antonio Beltran Arredondo, a 35-year-old Mexican national living in Las Vegas, has been sentenced to 135 months in federal prison and five years of supervised release for his role in distributing fentanyl and heroin in Oregon. Following his sentence, Arredondo is expected to be deported.
According to court documents, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) began investigating a drug trafficking organization in the fall of 2021 that was moving counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl and heroin from California into Oregon and Washington. Between October 2021 and February 2022, agents seized approximately 41 pounds of methamphetamine, 26 kilograms of heroin, 115,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills with fentanyl, and over $348,000 in cash from various locations across three states.
A related financial investigation by Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) found that Arredondo and his fiancé, Jacqueline Paola Rodriguez Barrientos, laundered drug proceeds through the Mazatlán Beauty Salon in Tualatin, Oregon. They also purchased real estate properties which were then used as rental income sources. Barrientos made frequent large cash deposits totaling more than $3.5 million over nine months in 2021.
Members of the trafficking group bought nine residential properties mortgage-free across Oregon, Washington, and Nevada since February 2021. The combined value of these properties exceeded $4.6 million. Arredondo directed these purchases using laundered funds. Rental income from these properties reached about $10,000 per month.
Arredondo and Barrientos were arrested at their Las Vegas home on February 17, 2022. Authorities seized two luxury vehicles and documentation of high-end purchases including credit card statements showing over $16,000 spent on professional boxing match tickets.
On June 2, 2025, Arredondo pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl as well as conspiracy to launder drug proceeds.
Arredondo is the last of twelve people charged in this case to be sentenced. Barrientos was sentenced in October 2024 and is serving time for her role in laundering money for the organization.
The government has moved to seize all nine residential properties linked to money laundering activities; five have been forfeited and sold while four remain under forfeiture proceedings.
The investigation was conducted by DEA with help from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), IRS-CI, Tigard Police Department, and Oregon State Police. Peter D. Sax, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon prosecuted the case while Katie De Villiers managed forfeiture proceedings.
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