Feds crack down on illegal 'Portland Sunday Market' selling LSD, ecstacy and mushrooms
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — LSD, ecstasy, mushrooms and more were all illegally sold at a Gresham event coined "Portland Sunday Market," federal prosecutors say.
On Sunday, federal agents arrested 46-year-old Kevin Olsen, who lives in Boring, and accused him of running the illegal drug market out of the property he owns in Gresham, which included an illegal marijuana grow operation, as originally reported in The Oregonian.
Federal investigators also accused Olsen of hiding a trove of guns at his home in Boring.
Federal agents said they were tipped off to the illegal drug market in February of 2024. They said it was known as the "Portland Sunday Market" and originally ran out of Southeast Portland but was later moved to Gresham to the property on Southeast Jeanette Street.
More than a year later, federal agents obtained a warrant to search the Gresham property, with law enforcement officers descending on the home on Sunday.
At the market, a federal complaint shows investigators found vendors selling controlled substances, including "MDMA, cocaine, ketamine, LSD, marijuana, and psilocybin mushrooms." There was also a growing operation with more than 900 marijuana plants found at the property.
Investigators seized hundreds of grams of illicit drugs, including more than 1,000 doses of LSD and multiple kilograms of marijuana and mushrooms, the document says.
Olsen and his wife were stopped on Sunday near his home, and then he was taken into custody on federal drug and weapons charges, court documents say.
Olsen denied being involved, telling officers the market was private. However, investigators claim he was spotted at the Gresham property multiple times.
Homeland Security Investigations agents said a search of Olsen's Boring home revealed unregistered silencers, body armor, ammunition and a cache of weapons, including eight pistols, five rifles and four shotguns.
Investigators also found cryptocurrency wallets, more than $5,000 in cash and an active marijuana grow operation with approximately 97 plants.
KOIN 6 News reached out to neighbors but they declined to comment. According to court documents, Olsen once paid a neighbor at his Boring home to trim his marijuana plants and was threatening to others.
Court documents reveal that Olsen wasn't allowed to own any of those firearms as he is a felon with previous assault and robbery convictions stemming from the 1990s.
Olsen is scheduled to be arraigned on April 30.