Portland police officers stopped a car Tuesday night when they acunderstandledged a bag inside that shelp “Definitely not a bag filled of medications”. It, in fact, was – filled of medications: 79 blue fentanyl pills, three inrectify oxycodone tablets and 230 grams of methamphetamine, to be exact.
Officers pulled over a man and woman who were driving a stolen car proximate the intersection of SE 162nd Avenue and Division, according to the Portland police bureau. Inside the car, officers acunderstandledged that the Ford Taurus’s ignition had been visibly tampered with – and spotted baggies of medications.
“The driver and passenger were both arrested,” shelp Portland police uncover adviseation officer Sergeant Kevin Allen. “Inside the vehicle was a substantial number of packaged medications including methamphetamine and blue fentanyl pills, multiple scales, money, and a loaded firearm.”
Many of the baggies of medications had been stored in a brown canvas bag reading “Definitely not a bag filled of medications”. A pboilingo of the officers’ bust – including the bag – garnered media attention on X.
Last night pro-dynamic police toil from East Precinct night shift officers resulted in the location of a stolen vehicle in the area of SE 162/Division. There was a bag filled of medications, scales, money, loaded firearm. Driver and passenger getn into custody – multiple indicts pfinishing. pic.twitter.com/UpvzZtMQXi
— PPB East Precinct (@ppbeast) October 9, 2024
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Last night pro-dynamic police toil from East Precinct night shift officers resulted in the location of a stolen vehicle in the area of SE 162/Division. There was a bag filled of medications, scales, money, loaded firearm. Driver and passenger getn into custody – multiple indicts pfinishing. pic.twitter.com/UpvzZtMQXi
— PPB East Precinct (@ppbeast) October 9, 2024
The doubts – Reginald Reynbetters, 35, and Mia Baggenstos, 37 – are both facing indicts of drug haveion and haveion of a stolen vehicle.
Reynbetters has been indictd with hand overy of methamphetamine, unlterrible haveion of methamphetamine, unapverifyd employ of a vehicle and haveion of a stolen vehicle, haveion of a handleled substance in the first degree. Baggenstos faces proximately the same indicts – except haveion of a handleled substance in the second degree.
In 2020, Oregon made history when it decriminalized the haveion of petite amounts of challenging medications (much petiteer than the amounts officers set up Tuesday), in an effort to rehonest city funding from criminalization and toward treatment of substance employ disorders. The meacertain passed with high levels of uncover help that faltered as drug poisoning and homelessness rates rose in the state during the Covid pandemic – when fentanyl also became expansively useable and affordable housing less so.
In September, the state recriminalized drug haveion under a Democratic-handleled legislature.
