Following a two-month investigation, on Tuesday evening detectives arrested a Terrebonne man suspected of drug sales following a raid on the suspect’s mobilehome where methamphetamine, packaging materials and digital scales, and almost $4,600 in cash were found.   Carlos Cardona Flores – DCJ photo    About six ounces of crystal meth worth $6,600 was seized – CODE photo    $4,575 in cash was found – CODE photo Central Oregon Drug Enforcement (CODE) team detectives received credible information that Carlos Cardona Flores, ... [full story]

Through a grant provided by the Northwest Health Foundation, Central Oregon Council on Aging (COCOA) has installed Automatic External Defibrillators (AED) in three of their Central Oregon meal sites. Senior centers in Redmond, La Pine, and Madras received the equipment, as well as emergency response education training for staff and volunteers.   Redmond Senior Center is one of three Central Oregon senior centers to receive defibrillators and training through a grant from the Northwest Health Foundation.  La ... [full story]

Following a two-month investigation, drug agents raided a mobile home in northwest Redmond Wednesday afternoon and seized crystal methamphetamine, packaging materials, a 9 mm handgun, and almost $25,000 in cash.   CODE agents seized a 9 mm handgun and almost $25,000 in cash Wednesday when they raided a trailer in Aspen Court Mobile Home Park in northwest Redmond – CODE photos Detectives with the Central Oregon Drug Enforcement (CODE) team received credible information that a trailer in space ... [full story]

SISTERS, Ore. – A total of 35 elk escaped from a private elk ranch in Sisters, Oregon Wednesday morning through fences that Oregon State Police (OSP) have determined were deliberately cut. All 35 elk have been recovered and returned to the ranch, unharmed. OSP are investigating the incident.  Individuals with information are urged to contact Sergeant David Pond at (541) 388-6213.  Two fences, both cut, keep the elk inside the ranch boundaries.  Of the 35 ... [full story]

DEQ Issues Penalty to Farm and Ranchland Property Owner Arland Keeton for Failure to Comply with State Spill Rules The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has issued a $4,400 civil penalty to Arland Keeton, a resident of the Deschutes County community of Sisters, for failing to clean up spills or releases of used oil from several 55-gallon drums and a 1,000-gallon oil tank on farm and ranchland property he owns at 69126 Holmes Road ... [full story]

Four young Central Oregon residents who became lost while riding mountain bikes on peaks in Smith Rock State Park were led to safety Saturday evening after they called for help on a cellular phone.  The riders, two men and two women from Bend and Redmond, were unable to find their way down the mountain, had run out of water and were dehydrated.   Four lost mountain bikers were led to safety from Smith Rock State Park, ... [full story]

Two Baker City men are being charged in Baker County Circuit Court on multiple trapping and wildlife-related crimes following an Oregon State Police (OSP) Fish & Wildlife Division investigation. Last month OSP Fish & Wildlife Division troopers located several illegal traps and snares within the Baker City Municipal Watershed near Marble and Goodrich Creeks, both on private property and property owned by Baker City. These illegal traps and snares were utilizing both game mammals and ... [full story]

18-year-old  “mentally challenged” woman may have been abducted; She is a former Oregon resident with family in the Prineville area, and was last seen with a Hispanic man Police are asking for the public’s help in locating an 18-year-old woman described as “mentally challenged” who disappeared, possibly abducted, from near her Bridley, California home Tuesday.  She was last seen with a Hispanic man, and may be in the Central Oregon area.   Anyone who sees Nora Loreta ... [full story]

An interagency traffic safety patrol Sunday kicked off extra enforcement directed by Oregon State Police (OSP) troopers and deputies with the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) using overtime grant funds in the U.S. Highway 26 Mt. Hood Safety Corridor, one of six safety corridors around the State selected by the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) to help law enforcement agencies pay overtime for dedicated traffic enforcement in these areas. "There are currently 13 state highway ... [full story]

A La Pine-area man died Sunday afternoon when he collided with a semi-truck after attempting to pass another commercial vehicle in a “no passing” zone on Highway 26 about 25 miles east of Government Camp on the Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon State Police (OSP) reported. Warm Springs Police first responded to the scene with local emergency medical personnel about 2:30 p.m. March 4.  OSP troopers were requested to conduct an investigation into the crash about ... [full story]

A Prineville man was badly injured Sunday evening in a crash on Highway 380 (Paulina Highway) near milepost 10, and alcohol is believed to be a factor, deputies reported. Shortly after 6:30 p.m. March 4, Crook County Sheriff’s deputies and emergency responders with the county’s fire and rescue department responded to a report of a single vehicle motorcycle crash about ten miles southeast of Prineville, Detective Sergeant Travis Jurgens said.  Lyle Dale Corcoran, 46, was ... [full story]

In an announcement adding worse news to bad for Jefferson County’s economic future, Genmar Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Seaswirl Boats, said the Culver manufacturing facility is closing -– potentially affecting 170 employees. Earlier this month, Bright Wood Corporation, the county’s largest private employer, announced that up to 140 workers would be laid off, primarily from their Madras location which is about nine miles from Culver.  Seaswirl Boats, according to Economic Development for Central Oregon, ... [full story]

Two brothers and a nine-year-old boy were rescued Monday morning after getting their pickup stuck in the snow, becoming lost as they walked ten miles in a circle, and spending a cold night huddled in their snowbound vehicle in the Ochoco National Forest, authorities reported. Richard Hill, 39; Robert Hill, 43; and Robert’s nine-year-old son left their Prineville homes early Sunday morning to go on what was expected to be a daylong outing of shooting in ... [full story]