Gary Hewitt, Bend’s St. Vincent de Paul executive director, at a homeless village under construction in Bend in 2021.

The leader of a local nonprofit was arrested Thursday after police say they found commercial quantities of methamphetamine in his southwest Redmond home.

Gary Lee Hewitt, 58, was charged Friday with possession and unlawful delivery of methamphetamine near a school. Hewitt has been the executive director of St. Vincent de Paul in Bend since 2021.

According to police, the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office street crimes unit had been investigating Hewitt and determined he was allegedly selling methamphetamine out of his Redmond home, which is located near two schools.

Police searched Hewitt’s property and found a “commercial quantity of methamphetamine” as well as scales, packaging material and money. Hewitt was arrested and jailed.

Hewitt was on a conditional release related to a citation in March for failing to report as a sex offender. A prosecutor on Friday filed a motion to revoke that conditional release due to the new drug charges.