Two arrests in meth raid on NE Madras home

Central Oregon drug agents arrested two Madras residents Friday morning in a raid on a northeast Madras home, officials said Monday.

Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team detectives executed a drug-related search warrant around 10 a.m. at a home at 380 Northeast 10 th Street, said Lt. Ken Mannix. They were assisted by Madras police, Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies and Warm Springs tribal police, Mannix said.

Kennedy Brooks, 51, and Vera Smith, 33, were taken into custody at the home and lodged at the Jefferson County Jail.

Mannix said Brooks was identified as being a supplier of street-level quantities of methamphetamine throughout Jefferson County. A combined investigation by Madras police and the CODE Team of Brooks’ operation led to Friday’s raid.

The drug agents seized evidence including user amounts of meth, scales, packaging material, drug paraphernalia and other evidence of meth sales and manufacturing, Mannix said.

Brooks was booked into the jail on meth manufacturing, distribution and possession charges, and released later Friday after posting 10 percent of his $15,000 bail, a jail officer said. Smith, charged with meth possession, remained held without bail Monday on a fugitive arrest warrant for probation violation.