Undercover agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), arrested three men associated with the Sureño street gang after purchasing 15 firearms, 58 machine gun conversion devices, and cocaine in a five-month undercover operation.

Taken into custody in Portland were Cesar Daniel Arevalo (36) of Portland, and Jose Luis Brown Ceballos (35) and Jose Luis Diaz Ceballos (24) of Salem. They have been charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.

According to court documents, ATF undercover agents made multiple undercover purchases involving Arevalo and his associates from July to November 2025.

The Armed Men Were Arrested While Guarding an Undercover Drug Deal

On November 13, while armed, Arevalo, Brown Ceballos, Diaz Ceballos, and a minor guarded an unde

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