Redmond pair arrested; cash, methamphetamine seized
Central Oregon drug agents stopped a car on Highway 97 south of Redmond and found $4,500 in cash inside, arresting a Redmond man and woman and later searching her downtown motel room, seizing methamphetamine and other evidence.
Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team detectives, assisted by Redmond police, pulled over a silver Hyundai driven by Cindy Byrd, 44, heading south on the highway near milepost 127 about 3:30 p.m. last Thursday, Bend police Lt. Ken Mannix said Wednesday. She and passenger Jeremiah Wright, 39, were arrested.
After a drug-sniffing police dog detected the presence or odor of drugs, a search of the car turned up about $4,500 in cash, Mannix said.
During the past several weeks, CODE Team detectives had “received significant information that Byrd was trafficking in commercial quantities of methamphetamine” from a room at the Village Squire Motel, 629 Southwest Fifth Street, Mannix said in a news release.
About 6 p.m. that evening, detectives executed a search warrant on Byrd’s room at the motel, as well as a separate storage unit. Mannix said they found and seized about 3 ounces of methamphetamine, scales, packaging material and other evidence of drug sales and manufacturing.
Byrd and Wright remained held Wednesday at the Deschutes County Jail. Byrd was held on $50,000 bail on charges of meth possession, manufacturing and distribution within 1,000 feet of a school, Mannix said. Wright was held without bail on a parole violation.
