Redmond boy, 13, charged in home burglary of several guns, minivan

A 13-year-old Redmond boy has been arrested in the recent burglary of a home at which several guns and a minivan were stolen, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said Monday.

The vehicle was recovered the next day and some of the firearms were later sold in the Redmond area and recovered, leading to charges against three Redmond adults.

Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched on March 21 to investigate a residential burglary on Southwest Mesa Way in Redmond, said Sgt. Deke DeMars. A resident reported “numerous firearms” were stolen, he wrote in a news release, along with a 1997 Dodge Caravan. The minivan was found by Redmond police in the city the next day.

Over the following week, detectives with the Sheriff’s Street Crimes Unit continued the investigation, leading to the arrest of the boy on charges of first-degree burglary and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, DeMars said. He was booked into the Juvenile Justice Facility.

DeMars said a second juvenile male is suspected to have been involved in the burglary but has not been located.

The stolen guns were sold in the Redmond area, DeMars said, and some of them have been recovered. He declined to be more specific at this time, due to the ongoing investigation.

Dwaine Allen Copeland, 53, and Cassandra Lynne Tischler, 48, were arrested Friday by Redmond police and booked into the county jail in Bend, where both remained held Monday, facing charges of felon in possession of a firearm and first-degree theft. A third suspect, Lori Christina Donovan, 34, was cited in lieu of custody on the same charges.

Copeland was held without bail on a county warrant and also faces several unrelated drug charges, including methamphetamine delivery and manufacturing within 1,000 feet of a school, jail records showed. Tischler was held on $25,000 bail on the drug charges; DeMars said she also was being formally charged Monday with receiving stolen firearms.

DeMars told NewsChannel 21 one of the guns stolen from the Mesa Way home was one of the five guns, three of them stolen, found March 24 when Central Oregon drug agents and the region’s swat team arrested suspected meth trafficker Krishna Desaigoudar, 52, of Bend, as he slept in a pickup truck along Highway 22 in Linn County.

The Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team said they found more than a half-pound of meth in the pickup, as well as four pistols and a semi-automatic rifle. Three of the guns were confirmed stolen out of Deschutes County, one last October and the other two in the previous two weeks. DeMars said the other recently stolen gun was unrelated to the Mesa Way case.

The Sheriff’s Street Crimes Unit has been assisted in the investigation by Redmond police and the CODE Team, DeMars said.