Four charged in heroin raid on Tumalo home

A late-night drug raid this week on a Tumalo home tied to the heroin trade around Deschutes County led to charges against four residents, police said.

Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team detectives, assisted by Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies and Oregon State Police executed a search warrant around 11 p.m. Wednesday at a home at 19882 Eighth Street in Tumalo, said Lt. Ken Mannix. Five people were in the home at the time, two of whom tried to run out the back door but were quickly taken into custody in the driveway without incident.

CODE Team detectives had developed information over several weeks that people at the address, specifically Jenna Zetzsche, 30, and Corey Grossman, 24, were involved in trafficking street-level amounts of heroin throughout the county, Mannix said.

Investigators developed other information in the past week that people linked to the home had active fugitive arrest warrants and that evidence of property crimes would be found there, leading to the request for a search warrant.

Items seized during the raid included street-level quantities of heroin and methamphetamine, along with scales, packaging material, drug paraphernalia and other evidence of heroin manufacturing and sales, Mannix said. Drug agents also found a red 1997 Honda Civic stolen several days earlier out of the Portland area, he added.

Mannix noted that Zetsche was the subject of two CODE Team investigations last year. In both cases, she was among several people arrested on various drug charges, and raids were conducted on Zetzsche’s home in Bend.

Zetzsche, Grossman and Ronald Dieringer, 43, were taken to the Deschutes County Jail on charges including fugitive arrest warrants, while Steven Hogan, 43, was issued a criminal citation for meth possession, to appear in court at a later date.

Zetzsche remained held without bail Friday night on a probation violation, also charged with heroin possession, manufacturing and distribution, as well as possession of a stolen vehicle, unlawful use of a motor vehicle and possession of a burglary tool or theft device.

Grossman was held without bail on a parole violation and similar charges as Zetzsche, though only heroin possession, not manufacturing or distribution. Dieringer has since been released from jail, a jail officer said.

Mannix said the CODE Team investigation was still “active and ongoing.”