The Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team has recently conducted a raid on a personal residence where officers suspected drug dealings. According to reports, officers from the CODE team had been watching the residence for some time. An investigation that lasted for months, ended in the raid of the home and the arrest of six people on drug charges.
Police claim that these individuals had been conducting street-level drug sales from the home. The police suspected cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine distribution from the home. In the raid, police claim to have found evidence of drug sales including packaging materials, scales, commercial levels of the drugs and other drug paraphernalia. In addition to the evidence of drug use, police allege that they also found a large amount of cash and seven guns.
Those found in the home at the time of the raid are facing various drug charges including delivery and manufacturing charges and charges for drug possession. Additional criminal charges are also pending against some of those arrested as a result of the raid.
Police raids, like the one seen in this case, are not usual. Police will often want to find additional evidence of drug use or possession by searching a particular person or location. However, these searches can only be conducted according to very specific search and seizure rules.
Those facing drug charges following a police raid should make sure that police followed these rules before, during and after the raid. If police violated search and seizure rules, then evidence found the search may be inadmissible in court. This could lead to dropped or reduced charges against an individual.
Source: Portland Tribune, "Six arrested in NE Prineville drug raid," Jan. 28, 2014
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