Four arrested in Bend drug investigation
Published 11:56 pm Thursday, August 2, 2018
- A Bend Police cruiser on patrol near Drake Park in downtown Bend. (Ryan Brennecke/Bulletin file photo)
A two-month investigation of a suspected heroin distribution operation in Bend culminated Wednesday in drug-related charges for five people, according to the Central Oregon Drug Enforcement team.
The investigation, which began in June, focused on a home at 61670 SE 27th St. in Bend occupied by 26-year-old Christopher Alan Farrar, according to a CODE team press release. A search of the property on Wednesday found what law enforcement officials call a “commercial quantity” of heroin and methamphetamine in addition to digital scales, cash, a stolen bike, more than a pound of marijuana and evidence of the manufacture of butane honey oil.
Just before the execution of a search warrant Wednesday, law-enforcement officials stopped three vehicles leaving the home and detained their drivers.
Edgar Javier Miramontes-Gonzalez, 37, of Bend, who was driving a 2009 Mazda 3, was detained and later arrested on charges that include unlawful possession and delivery of meth.
Bend resident Armando Avendano-Gonzalez, 41, who was driving a 1999 GMC Suburban, was cited for unlawful possession of meth.
The third vehicle, a 2005 Toyota Scion, was driven by Farrar, whom law enforcement identified as the source of the heroin supply. He was arrested on charges that include unlawful possession and delivery of heroin and first-degree theft.
Also charged were Angelina Rose Teel, 18, of Bend, and Yesinia Alfaro Menjivar, 38, of Nevada. Teel was charged with heroin possession, and both she and Menjivar were charged with frequenting a place where controlled substances are used.
Farrar, Menjivar, Teel and Miramontes-Gonzalez were taken to the Deschutes County Jail.