Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office busts black market marijuana operation near Bend
Published 4:45 pm Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- A photo from inside a home on Manzanita Lane south of Bend where the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office seized 69 pounds of processed marijuana, 160 marijuana plants, packaging materials and money on Wednesday.
After intercepting a “marijuana-laden” package destined for Virginia, Deschutes County law enforcement officers busted a local couple suspected of distributing marijuana on the black market, authorities said.
The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office seized 69 pounds of processed marijuana, 160 marijuana plants, packaging materials and money from a house in the 19000 block of Manzanita Lane in Deschutes River Woods on Wednesday, according to a news release from sheriff’s Sgt. Kent Vander Kamp of the Central Oregon Drug Enforcement team.
“Investigators have determined that the seized marijuana was intended for distribution across the black market in the United States,” he said.
Deputies detained Automne Glasgow, 49, in a traffic stop around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Vander Kamp said. Simultaneously, sheriff’s detectives and the county SWAT team searched the house on Manzanita Lane, just south of Bend, where they found Michael Bradford, 50, Vander Kamp said.
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service helped the sheriff’s office with the investigation.
Bradford remains in Deschutes County jail, according to jail records. The couple had yet to be charged in Deschutes County Circuit Court as of Wednesday evening.