Bend man jailed on charges of selling ‘party drugs’ from his home near Westside Village Magnet School

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A recent traffic stop led to the arrest of a 42-year-old Bend man accused of selling a variety of illegal “party drugs” from his home, located less than 1,000 feet of Westside Village Magnet at Kingston School on Bend’s Westside.

The Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team said its investigation found that North O’Connor was selling the drugs from his home in the 1300 block of Northwest Lexington Avenue, located within 1,000 feet of the school, which Lieutenant Mike Landolt said “made this case a priority for our team.”

CODE Team members pulled over a vehicle driven by O’Connor in a traffic stop around 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 24 in the area of Northeast Fourth Street and Greenwood Avenue, Landolt said. He was taken into custody on probable cause of distributing cocaine.

CODE detectives requested and were granted a search warrant for O’Connor, his vehicle and his home.

The detectives, assisted by the Central Oregon Emergency Response (CERT) Team and Bend Police, served the search warrant around 8:30 p.m. that night. Landolt said the searches turned up cocaine, MDMA (ecstasy), ketamine, marijuana, psilocybin mushrooms, steroids, cash, packaging material, scales and drug paraphernalia.

O’Connor was booked into the county jail, where he remained held Thursday on $500,000 bail. He was arraigned by video from jail last Friday on four felony charges and is scheduled to enter a plea on Nov. 22, court records show.

O'Connor was indicted Oct. 30 on one Class A felony – cocaine delivery with 1,000 feet of a school – and three Class C felonies: possessing a “substantial quantity” (over 10 grams) of cocaine, attempted illegal delivery of marijuana and marijuana possession (over 128 ounces).

"This is an ongoing investigation," Landolt said, and "more charges and more arrests may be conducted."