A woman who laundered millions of dollars of drug proceeds through a Tualatin beauty salon in support of what a prosecutor called her boyfriend’s “exceptionally large” drug trafficking ring was sentenced Wednesday to nearly five years in prison.
Jacqueline Paola Rodriguez Barrientos deposited more than $3.5 million of cash into the bank account of Mazatlán Beauty Salon or her own bank account between Jan. 11 and Oct. 12 in 2021, far exceeding the plausible legitimate cash flow earned by a single beauty salon during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to IRS agent Scott McGeachy.
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