Bend man arrested on charges he held a gun to someone’s chest during a fight in Cassity’s Bar parking lot

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Bend Police and the Central Oregon Emergency Response Team made a traffic stop Thursday and arrested a 25-year-old Bend man involved in a dispute at a southwest Bend bar's parking lot, where he allegedly held a gun to someone's chest.

Around 2 a.m. on Saturday, March 7, police responded to a report of a physical fight involving several bar patrons in the parking lot of Cassity’s Bar at 25 SW Century Drive, Bend Police Communications Manager Sheila Miller said. 

"During the altercation, one of the participants took out a handgun and pressed it to the victim’s chest for several seconds before leaving the scene," Miller said in a news release.

Over the course of the investigation, officers identified 25-year-old Kenneth Noe Gonzalez as the suspect in the case, she said.  

Shortly before 9 a.m. Thursday, Bend Police and CERT members pulled over a silver Subaru Legacy at the corner of Butler Market Road and Florence Drive in northeast.

Gonzalez, the driver, was taken into custody without incident and taken to the Deschutes County Jail on suspicion of menacing and third-degree assault. Court records show he was being held without bail pending arraignment on Thursday.

CERT and Bend patrol officers also executed three search warrants related to the allegations - one on Gonzalez’s home, in the 63100 block of Deschutes Market Road, and two on his vehicles.