[Chapter One, book two]: US attorney Charles Turner issued a press release on April 19, 1984: The federal grand jury at Portland Oregon has returned a 37-count indictment charging eight individuals in connection with an international cocaine trafficking group centered in the Portland area… smuggling and distribution of an estimated five hundred pounds of cocaine with a wholesale value of fifteen million dollars…[the investigation] developed by the Northwest Organized Crime Drug Task Force, one of twelve regional task forces established by president Ronald Reagan…to disrupt trafficking by organized criminal groups throughout the nation.
…Jose Carlos Chavez-Vernaza, Lake Oswego, Oregon, and James Francis Barnard, Jr., Portland, were identified in the indictment as the principals in the cocaine smuggling and distribution organization… Others charged with conspiracy and distribution of cocaine were Michael D. Gogan, Michael G. Palmer, James A. Ruth (also known as Jerry Ruth), Julio Rodolfo Morchio-Godoy, Jaime Alfredo Santos-Chacon, and Diego H. Romani-Jimenez.