Cops investigate local pot operation

On October 11, neighbors witnessed a law enforcement action at a home on Forked Horn Drive in Sisters, the site of a reported unlicensed marijuana grow operation.

Witnesses said that law enforcement personnel broke down a gate to enter the property and stayed there for hours.

Law enforcement sources confirmed that the action was part of a Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team (CODE) investigation. That investigation is ongoing, and a sheriff's office spokesman said that more information will be forthcoming when the investigation is concluded.

The Bulletin in Bend reported last weekend that, "Police confiscated 800 pounds of marijuana and 50 pounds of marijuana concentrate stashed in a Penske truck headed south of La Pine on U.S. Highway 97 earlier this month," an action that is connected to the search of the Forked Horn property.

AP reported that three men were indicted by a grand jury. Andrew I. Pollack, 28, and Dusty Michael Jones, 40, are charged with unlawful possession, delivery and manufacturing of marijuana. Twenty-eight-year-old Shaun Gutta is charged with unlawful possession, delivery and manufacture of marijuana, unlawful possession of more than an ounce of cannabinoid extracts, and frequenting a place where controlled substances are used.