Prineville carjacking suspect caught in Redmond

One of two suspects in a Prineville carjacking Friday was arrested as a passenger in a Redmond traffic stop Saturday afternoon, Crook County sheriff’s deputies said.

Redmond police informed the sheriff’s office shortly before 1 p.m. that they had taken Dominick Ramon Isherwood, 24, of Prineville, into custody without incident during the traffic stop, said sheriff’s Sgt. Travis Jurgens

Isherwood was transferred to the custody of Crook County deputies and returned to Prineville, where he was booked into the county jail on a first-degree robbery charge. Initial bail was set at $50,000, pending his initial court appearance Monday.

The carjacking at gunpoint near Prineville Friday morning led to a passenger’s arrest on an outstanding warrant. Hours later, the stolen SUV was found parked at northwest Prineville apartment, which brought out a SWAT team but failed to find the suspects, deputies said.

Deputies were dispatched around 6 a.m. Friday to an area on Barnes Butte Road, just north of Prineville, where a man and woman said their 1998 Dodge Durango had just been stolen by two men armed with a handgun, Savage said.

The victims said two men threatened them with the gun and ordered them out of the SUV, then fled in it. They were able to identify the suspects as Isherwood and Michael Shrauger, 25, who Savage said are both “known in the Prineville area.”

During the contact, deputies also arrested a man who had been a passenger in the SUV. Graham Evans, 26, was taken into custody on a Marion County parole violation warrant for dangerous drugs and taken to the Crook County Jail, where he was held without bail.

Around 11 a.m. Friday, an Oregon State Police trooper spotted the stolen Durango parked at an apartment at the Grasshopper Village Apartments, 850 NW 10 th Street in Prineville, “an area that Isherwood had been known to frequent in the past,” Savage said in a news release.

The apartment resident was contacted and asked to leave until it could be secured. Since the pair had a gun during the carjacking, the Central Oregon Emergency Response Team in Bend was called out as a perimeter was set around the apartments.

CERT then sent a team in to try to find the suspects. Savage said they cleared the apartment and others nearby, but the suspects were not found, Savage said, although “items of evidence were located inside the apartment.”

Shrauger was still at large as of Saturday afternoon. Savage said anyone with information about his whereabouts was asked to contact the sheriff’s office at 541-447-6398 or their local police.

Do not attempt to make contact with him,” the sergeant added.