Overview

• Edis Odalis Banegas received 108 months in federal prison and three years supervised release after pleading guilty to distributing fentanyl in Portland.
• Caden Jay Christman was sentenced to 135 months in prison and five years supervised release for trafficking more than 17 pounds of fentanyl and methamphetamine across Oregon and Montana.
• Investigators seized over ten pounds of fentanyl, counterfeit pills, cutting agents and firearms from Banegas’s Portland residence and storage unit during September 2023 search warrants.
• Christman’s operation was exposed in February 2024 through traffic stops and residence searches in Powell County, Montana, yielding nine pounds of methamphetamine, over 20,000 fentanyl pills and multiple firearms.
• The FBI, Homeland Security Investigations and local police agencies led the coordinated probes under a federal initiative to curb rising overdose deaths tied to illicit opioids.