It’s been a year and a half since federal agents raided a methamphetamine “superlab” in Linn County, and while most of the defendants have been sentenced, the case still is not over.

One defendant will be sentenced in February. Ten others have already been sentenced during the past year.

The lab, in which officials found 200 pounds of chemicals and three pounds of meth, had been operating on Sheep Head Drive near Brownsville and was raided in May 2005.

The case remains open for a 12th defendant, Victor Manuel Zamora-Arrellano, who is still listed in U.S. District Court records as a fugitive.

The 12 defendants were named in a federal indictment. Eleven have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to manufacture more than 50 grams of methamphetamine.

Sentences in federal prison in California were handed out as follows:

Arturo Arevalo-Cuevas: 11 years, three months.

Jose Artemio Chavez Orozco: 5 years, three months.

Eulalio Valencia Contreras: 9 years.

Adriana Arevalo-Cuevas and Irania Arevalo-Cuevas: three years, 10 months.

Minerva Arevalo-Cuevas: four years, three months.

Andres Ortiz-Morales: 14 years.

Pedro Chavez-Minera, Miguel Ortiz-Chavez and Ramon Soto-Chavez: four year, nine months.

Sentencing for Sonia Violet Garcia is scheduled for Feb. 5 in Portland.

At the time of the raid, officials said that some of the defendants were Mexican nationals.

Democrat-Herald