Heroin dealers head to prison | MailTribune.com: "Two cousins with ties to a violent Southern California gang were sentenced Monday to lengthy federal prison terms for running a ring that sold more than $2 million worth of heroin locally before it was broken up last fall.
Ismael 'Chivo' Anaya, 28, was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Medford to 21 years and eight months in prison, while cousin Eliot 'Alex' Delavirgen, 33, was sentenced to 13 years and four months in federal prison.
Senior U.S. District Judge Owen Panner also ordered the forfeiture of two vehicles, jewelry and more than $840,000 seized as illegal profits for selling a smokable version of the narcotic to mid-level dealers for distribution.
The pair were the top targets in police's 'Operation Goat Rope' last fall that used informants and federal wiretaps to break up the large heroin-trafficking organization centered in Medford for two years beginning in mid-2007.
A mid-level drug trafficker in the ring, 22-year-old Jerrett Michael Hooey of Talent, was also sentenced Monday to more than eight years in federal prison for his role in pushing the dangerous narcotic known as 'goat,' responsible for more Oregon deaths than methamphetamine and cocaine combined."

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