Redmond woman arrested in Burns on drug charges
A Redmond woman was arrested in Burns on Sunday on drug charges in connection with a raid on a northwest Redmond mobile home a week earlier, police said Monday, adding that a second suspect remained at large.
Whitney Grosso, 25, was located and arrested by Burns police around 12:30 p.m. Sunday, said Redmond police Sgt. Curtis Chambers. She was taken to the Deschutes County Jail in Bend, he said, offering thanks to Burns police and Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies for helping transport her to Bend.
Chambers also said police were “thankful for all the tips received as to her whereabouts.”
It was the first of two unrelated drug raids in five days at the Aspen Court Mobile Home Park, both of which turned up heroin and methamphetamine.
Seven Redmond residents, including a 17-year-old girl, were arrested in a drug raid early Friday at the mobile home park., police said.
In the first incident, Redmond police and the department’s Street Crimes United executed a search warrant around 4:30 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 31 at Space No. 17 in the Aspen Court Mobile Home Park at 528 Northwest 17 th Street, said Sgt. Hank Majetich.
No one was home at the time, but two 25-year-old Redmond women, Grosso and Ashley Manahan, were considered “persons of interest,” Majetich said, adding that “there is probable cause for their arrest.”
A search of the home turned up meth and heroin, scales and packaging equipment, and property stolen in recent burglaries and thefts from cars in the Bend and Redmond areas, the sergeant said.
Anyone with information about the whereabouts of Manahan, or with drug information they would like to share, were asked to contact Redmond police at (541) 504-3400, or through the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office non-emergency dispatch number at (541) 693-6911.
You can also call the Crime Stoppers Tip Line at 1-877-876-TIPS, or use the form on KTVZ.COM’s Crime Stoppers page. You can remain anonymous, and you could be eligible for a cash reward.
Around 6 a.m. Friday, the police and Street Crimes Unit, along with detectives from the Central Oregon Drug Enforcement (CODE) team, executed another search warrant, at Space No. 45 in the same mobile home park, though police said the two drug investigations were unrelated.
The search of the home and the occupants turned up meth, heroin and scales and packaging equipment. Four suspects were taken to the Deschutes County Jail, a fifth cited and released and the 17-year-old girl to the county’s Juvenile Detention Center.
Tanner Hilgers, 19, faces charges including heroin distribution and possession, theft, ID theft, forgery and frequenting a place where drugs are used or sold. His bail totaled $90,000.
Malayla Kozlowski, 20, was held without bail on a parole violation, also facing drug charges. Abraham Sandoval Ruiz, 19, was held without bail on an out-of-county warrant, along with meth possession, felon in possession of a restricted weapon and frequenting. Omar Pacheco, 22, and Miguel Diaz, 18, were arrested on a frequenting charge, posted $500 bail and were released.
The teen girl was charged with heroin possession and distribution, theft, ID theft, forgery, criminal possession of a forged instrument, hindering and frequenting.
