Valencia

I.

Miguel Antonio Carmona-Arroyave, Maria Loaiza, Juana Lopez and Manuel Valencia were part of a cocaine distribution organization centered in Portland, Oregon. Carmo-na-Arroyave was the leader of the enterprise; his wife Loaiza laundered money received from the sale of cocaine and invested the profits; Lopez distributed the cocaine to the organization’s salespersons, collected the receipts from the sale of the drugs and maintained records; and Valencia was one of the organization’s street-level sellers.

On February 7, 1991, the Oregon police searched a Portland apartment believed to be rented by Carmona-Arroyave and seized 96 grams of cocaine; $10,835 in currency, including $1,000 in an envelope addressed from Carmona-Arroyave to Loaiza; a scale; packaging material; drug paraphernalia and pagers. They also seized a ledger containing what appeared to be a record of sales of over 10,000 grams of cocaine, an entry for “M.L.” and a reference to a post office box rented by Loaiza.

After further investigation, the police obtained and executed warrants to search several Portland locations rented or controlled by Carmona-Arroyave, including a room at the Scandia Lodge motel, Lopez’s…