A Vancouver man and a co-defendant are facing federal charges for allegedly running a local drug trafficking ring responsible for making and distributing hundreds of thousands of counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl.
Joshua Clay Wilfong, 50, and James Dunn Jr., 61, of Milwaukie, Ore., were charged Thursday by criminal complaint with conspiring to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl and possessing with intent to distribute fentanyl, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon.
Both were arrested Wednesday while allegedly negotiating the sale of more than 300,000 fentanyl pills. Investigators later learned Wilfong and Dunn regularly sold hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills in single transactions, and they sold an average of 10,000 pills a week, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
In May 2021, law enforcement from Homeland Security Investigations, the FBI, the Clackamas County Interagency Task Force in Oregon and the Clark County Sheriff’s Office began investigating the drug trafficking ring in the Portland metro area.
