Deschutes County Sheriff's Office cruiser

Authorities arrested an Idaho woman Sunday morning at a homeless camp near Sisters on suspicion that she kidnapped her own children. 

A Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office deputy was on patrol around 7:30 a.m. Sunday in the area of U.S. Highway 20 and Forest Road 4606, a gravel road that connects Bend and Sisters, Jason Wall, sheriff’s office spokesperson, said in a news release Monday.

The deputy noticed a camp where Leah Marie Sharp was living. Sharp, 37, was wanted on a warrant out of Caldwell, Idaho, for three charges of kidnapping and three charges of custodial interference, Wall said. The deputy watched Sharp and realized her three children, who were listed as missing and endangered, were there, Wall said. 

Deputies then arrested Sharp at her camp and placed her children, who were unharmed, with the Department of Human Service’s child welfare division so they could be taken back to Idaho, Wall said. 

Sharp was booked into the Deschutes County jail around 12:30 p.m. Sunday and remained there on a $100,000 bond Monday morning, according to jail records.