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Sisters woman arrested after wreck

Sheriff's deputies arrested Sisters area resident Shasta Lee Obersinner, 29, after a rollover accident in Redmond that injured her passenger, who is also from Sisters.

According to Deschutes County Sheriff's Office reports, 911 dispatch received a report of a single vehicle rollover crash near the intersection of Highway 126 at S.W. Helmholtz Way in Redmond, at about 12:17 a.m., on Tuesday, July 10.

Two occupants were in the 1985 Ford Ranger pick-up truck and had to be extricated by the Redmond Fire Department, the sheriff's office reported.

The passenger, Gary Rainwater, 38, of Sisters, received minor injuries and was treated and released at St. Charles Medical Center in Redmond.

The driver, Obersinner, was transported to St. Charles -Redmond where she was treated for minor injuries and released. Police reported that Obersinner was arrested for Driving Under the Influence of Intoxicants and Assault III. She was later lodged at the Deschutes County Jail.

 

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