A Gresham man with a lengthy criminal history has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after being caught transporting methamphetamine in Deschutes County.
Dennis Richard DeChenne Jr., 39, was sentenced to 130 months in federal prison and five years of supervised release, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
According to court documents, DeChenne was involved in transporting large quantities of methamphetamine and heroin from the Portland area to Central Oregon for resale. Investigators determined that DeChenne would stay in a Bend, Oregon hotel for several days at a time and use local runners to sell the drugs.
On August 19, 2020, the Central Oregon Drug Enforcement (CODE) team located DeChenne at a casino in southern Oregon. He was arrested the next day by Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office deputies, who found two pounds of methamphetamine and a loaded pistol in DeChenne’s vehicle.
DeChenne was charged by criminal information with possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine in July 2021. He pleaded guilty to the single charge on April 7, 2023.
The case was investigated by CODE and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). It was prosecuted by Jeffrey S. Sweet, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon.
The CODE team is a multi-jurisdictional narcotics task force supported by the Oregon-Idaho High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) program. CODE includes members of the Bend, Redmond, Prineville, Madras, Sunriver, and Black Butte Police Departments; the Warm Springs Tribal Police Department; the Deschutes, Crook, and Jefferson County Sheriff and District Attorney’s Offices; the Oregon State Police; the Oregon National Guard; DEA; and the FBI.
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Key Facts
- State: Oregon
- Category: Drug Trafficking
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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