La Pine homeowner awakens to burglar in kitchen

A La Pine homeowner awakened by a loud noise Sunday night found a burglar in the kitchen, who ran from the scene but was caught by Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies hiding at a neighbor’s driveway, authorities said.

Deputies were dispatched shortly after 9 p.m. to a reported burglary in progress in the 16000 block of Del Pino Drive, Sgt. Don Manning said.

Deputies learned a man identified as Richard Allen Bounds, 27, of La Pine, was found in the home’s kitchen after the homeowner was awakened. Bounds fled when confronted by the homeowner and before deputies arrived, Manning said.

Minutes later, deputies arrived and found Bounds hiding in the driveway area on the neighboring property, he added.

Deputies’ determined during their initial contact that Bounds “was most likely under the influence of an unknown substance,” the sergeant said in a news release.

Bounds was arrested and taken to St. Charles Bend for medical evaluation and treatment, then to the county jail, where he was booked on charges of first-degree burglary, second-degree criminal trespass and second-degree criminal mischief. He remained held without bail Monday on a probation violation.

Bounds made the news as a fugitive in May 2013, when he was spotted at Gordy’s Truck Stop by a sheriff’s deputy, but fled into a nearby wooded area. Deputies said a quick search brought in a Bend police K-9, which found him hiding in the woods and injured him when he refused to comply with deputies’ commands.

At the time, Bounds was on the county’s most wanted fugitives list for a parole violation charge on earlier crimes of methamphertamine possession, burglary, theft and assault.