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Man Convicted of Conspiracy to Import and Distribute Fentanyl Published: 10 July 2021 10 July 2021
Portland, Oregon - A federal jury convicted a Rhode Island man Friday for conspiring to import and distribute fentanyl and fentanyl analogues, continuing criminal enterprise, money laundering conspiracy, and multiple obstruction offenses.
According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Steven Barros Pinto, 40, of Pawtucket, conspired to import kilogram-quantities of fentanyl from China and use the fentanyl to manufacture counterfeit Percocet pills. Pinto personally distributed tens of thousands of the fentanyl-laced pills. Pinto acquired the fentanyl with the assistance of co-conspirators Daniel Vivas Ceron, of Colombia, who pleaded guilty in July 2019, and Anthony Gomes, of Rhode Island, who pleaded guilty in April 2018. Pinto also engaged in a series of obstructive acts intended to silence witnesses and tamper with evidence.
Oconee County Emergency Services crews were searching for a hiker in distress Friday evening, according to the agency's director, Scott Krein. They received a 911 call from a hiker on the Foothills Trail near the North Carolina state line suffering from a medical condition, but the call was broken up because cell service is weak in that area, Krein said. He said the rescue of the hiker has been turned over to North Carolina authorities. Sign up.
Storm damage was reported Saturday evening just north of Seneca after what may have been a microburst came through the area, Oconee County fire chief Scott Krein said.
A communications tower broke in the winds and shingles blew off the roof at Total Communications, Oconee County administrator Amanda Brock said, and a vehicle on S.C. Highway 28 was damaged. The worst of the storm hit the Bountyland area near Keowee School Road and Highway 28, Krein said.
The area did not lose power and nobody was injured in the storm, Brock said.
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