Several Bend residents were arrested last week following an investigation into alleged illegal trafficking of large amounts of methamphetamine, according to police.

Detectives assigned to the Central Oregon Drug Enforcement team made the arrests after a short-term investigation.

Salvador Gonzalez-Gonzalez, 28, had been traveling to California and allegedly acquiring commercial quantities of methamphetamine and returning to Deschutes County to sell it, according to a news release Tuesday from CODE.

Gonzalez-Gonzalez had a partner, Adrian Parra Lopez, 24, police said, and “co-conspirators.” The methamphetamine was being kept at a storage facility in Bend.

Detectives began monitoring a motel room on SE Third Street in Bend on Aug. 17, where Gonzalez-Gonzalez was staying. Police started making arrests in connection with the investigation soon after at SE Wilson Ave and Roosevelt Ave along SE Third Street, according to the release.

Police arrested Nicholas Butler, 33, and Ashley Monnier, 27, around 11:20 a.m., according to a news release. Marshall Rogers, 24, was arrested around the same time in a different location.

Soon after, police arrested Gonzalez-Gonzalez and Parra Lopez, as well as Tonya Woods, 42, Kristina Stewart, 27, Christopher Porter, 34, and Katerina Escalante, 20.

Stewart was arrested on a fugitive arrest warrant. Escalante was arrested on suspicion of money laundering and engaging in a financial transaction derived from unlawful activity, police said. The others arrests were related to allegedly selling and possessing methamphetamine.

Butler, Escalante and Porter were cited and released, police said. Monnier, Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Parra-Lopez, Woods, Stewart and Rogers were lodged in the Deschutes County jail. Monnier, Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Parra-Lopez, Stewart and Woods were listed as still being in the jail Tuesday night.