PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A 21-year-old woman from Damascus was sentenced to two years in federal prison after running a social media drug distribution service to target minors in the Portland metro area, according to the Oregon Department of Justice.
Averi Dickinson, who was 19 at the time of her arrest, was originally charged with a criminal complaint of conspiring to distribute and distributing controlled substances, as well as possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
In January 2023, the FBI began investigating Dickinson after learning she ran a drug distribution service called “Kiki’s Delivery Service,” according to court documents. Officials said she advertised and took orders for illegal narcotics on Instagram, Snapchat and Telegram.
Investigators found that