La Pine drug raid: Two arrests, seizure of drugs, guns
Citizen complaints about suspected drug activity led to a raid on a La Pine-area home last week, resulting in the arrest of two residents and the seizure of methamphetamine, heroin, six guns and a stolen motorcycle, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said Wednesday.
Detectives with the sheriff’s office Street Crimes Unit, patrol deputies and the Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team executed a search warrant last Thursday afternoon in the 16000 block of Big Meadow Drive in response to citizen complaints, said Sgt. Deke Demars, a detective in the Street Crimes Unit.
An investigation determined that Sheryl Anderson, 51, and Bob Lauber, 68, were involved in drug sales, Demars said.
During the raid, deputies contacted Lauber and seized more than 30 grams of methamphetamine, a user amount of heroin, six firearms and a 2005 Honda motorcycle reported stolen out of Clark County, Washington in 2014.
One of the six guns recently was stolen during a Bend burglary and had an obliterated serial number, the sergeant said. Anderson, a convicted felon, is prohibited from possessing firearms, Demars added.
At the time of the raid, Anderson also was in the county jail in Bend on other charges and the new charges were later added of meth delivery and possession, heroin possession, possession of a stolen vehicle, six counts of felon in possession of a firearm and obliteration or change of a serial number on a firearm. She remained in the jail on Wednesday, held on $35,000 bail.
Lauber was cited in lieu of custody on drug charges, possession of a stolen vehicle and obliteration or chance of a serial number on a firearm.
The sheriff’s Office Street Crimes unit focuses enforcement on street-level drug cases and quality of life issues connected to property crimes throughout the county, Demars said.
