An Oregon couple known for distributing drugs was sentenced to federal prison today after they were linked to the overdose death of a man to whom they had sold drugs to for more than a year.
Brian Joseph Ramos, 49, and Christine Marie Ramos, 41, residents of Yoncalla, Oregon, were sentenced to 70 and 51 months in federal prison, respectively.
The Ramos duo must also serve five-year terms of supervised release following the completion of their prison sentences.
According to court documents, in May 2018, detectives from the Douglas Interagency Narcotics Team (DINT) learned that an adult male stopped by the Ramos’ home in Yoncalla after his release from a residential drug treatment program.
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Later the same day, the man tragically died of fentanyl poisoning. The next day, investigators interviewed the Ramos’ who confirmed the man was at their residence the day prior, but denied giving him drugs. Christine Ramos, who was at work when the man stopped by their residence, admitted to selling the man pills for up to two years prior to his overdose.
At one point after learning the man was injecting the pills she sold him, Christine Ramos stopped selling him drugs, but resumed thereafter.
Detectives searched the Ramos’ residence and found several dozen grams of methamphetamine, 260 pills, drug paraphernalia, and digital scales.
Several pills that later tested positive for fentanyl were found in the Ramoses’ vehicles. Evidence recovered from Brian Ramos’s phone revealed that he had in fact sold a pill to the man who succumbed to the fatal overdose.
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On August 30, 2018, the Ramos’ were charged with a criminal complaint of conspiring with one another to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, oxycodone, and hydromorphone.
On March 29, 2021, both waived indictment and pleaded guilty.
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