Bend woman jailed after meth mailed from Calif.
A Bend woman who has been a “high-level target” of Central Oregon drug agents for a number of years has been arrested on charges she had $6,500 worth of methamphetamine mailed to her from Fresno, California, an official said Thursday.
The latest case involving Kelly Ann Dyer, 40, began the afternoon of Oct. 26, when Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team detectives contacted Michael Wallace, 43, also of Bend, as he was walking in the area of Northeast Fifth Street and Hawthorne Avenue, said CODE Team Lt. Ken Mannix.
CODE detectives, assisted by Amtrak police, had learned Wallace traveled to the Fresno area, intending to acquire and later bring back to Central Oregon “a commercial quantity of methamphetamine,” Mannix said in a news release.
Wallace did not possess the meth when he was contacted, but more investigation found he had mailed the drugs to Dyer.
Two days later, on Oct. 28, detectives seized the package from a shipping company in Bend. A search warrant was executed on the package and turned up 6.5 ounces of meth, with a street value of about $6,500, Mannix said.
On Nov. 20, CODE Team detectives and Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies found Dyer in Bend and arrested her on charges of meth possession, conspiracy to distribute the drug and supplying contraband to a correctional facility.
Jail records show Dyer is being held without bail on those and other charges, including theft and identity theft, pending her next court date on Feb. 3. Mannix said she has been arrested on drug charges a number of times in the past year and has been a CODE Team “high-level target and priority for a number of years.”
Mannix said an investigation found that Dyer was working with Wallace to buy drugs in California that later were sold in Central Oregon. Further investigation revealed more about Wallace’s involvement, Mannix said, though Dyer is the only one who has been arrested so far in the ongoing investigation.
