Fugitive runs, arrested in Tumalo traffic stop
A wanted man who ran from a Deschutes County sheriff’s deputy on patrol in Tumalo initially eluded searchers Thursday morning but was arrested during a traffic stop about 90 minutes later, as was a Culver woman who was driving the car, deputies said.
Around 8:25 a.m., the deputy tried to contact a man standing outside the Shell Tumalo Country Store on Cook Avenue, Sgt. William Bailey said. The man told the deputy he was waiting for a ride but took off running to the southeast.
More deputies responded and began searching for the man, soon identified as James W. Herrera, 36, of Bend, found to have an active felony warrant by the Oregon State Parole Board for parole violation, Bailey said.
Deputies at first were unable to locate Herrera. But around 10 a.m., deputies and Street Crimes Unit detectives located him during a traffic stop of a white 2004 Buick LeSabre near the Tumalo State Park Campground.
Herrera was taken to the county jail on the arrest warrant. The driver of the car, Keiri Hall, 29, of Culver, also was arrested and taken to the jail on methamphetamine possession, manufacture and delivery charges. She was held on $40,000 bail.
