Bend woman pulled over, arrested on Highway 26, accused of trafficking drugs from Portland to Central Oregon
Barney Lerten
MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ) — A Bend woman was pulled over on U.S. Highway 26 near Madras and arrested Wednesday night after a K-9’s alert and a search of her vehicle turned up fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine, drug agents said.
The Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team had determined during a short-term investigation that Sunshine Wright, 48, was trafficking drugs from the Portland area into Central Oregon, Lt. Mike Landolt said.
A Jefferson County sheriff’s deputy stopped Wright’s SUV, a blue 2005 Ford Focus, around 10 p.m. Wednesday at the intersection of Highway 26 and Cherry Lane, due to multiple speeding violations “and the reasonable suspicion that drugs were being transported in the vehicle,” Landolt said in a news release Thursday.
Officers deployed drug-detection K-9 Keira, who alerted to the odor of illegal drugs in the car, Landolt said.
CODE Team detectives were granted a search warrant for the vehicle, where detectives found about 80 grams of fentanyl, 80 grams of methamphetamine and more than 10 grams of cocaine in the area of the front seats, Landolt said. They also found other items “consistent with the distribution of illegal narcotics,” he added.
Wright was arrested n drug possession and delivery charges and booked into the Jefferson County Jail.
Court records show she was arraigned Thursday afternoon on four felony drug delivery and possession charges. Judge Wade Whiting set bail at $100,000 pending her return to court Nov. 28 for arraignment on an expected formal grand jury indictment.