Crime

A Lane County Sheriff's deputy has been arrested and faces multiple federal child exploitation charges after investigators allege he exchanged sexually explicit messages and images with children and persuaded minors to produce child sexual abuse material.

A Crook County Grand Jury has indicted Prineville resident Mark Kittredge McKinnon with multiple counts of sexual abuse as well as invasion of personal privacy.

Tyler James Blaylock, a 33-year-old Prineville resident and Door Dash driver, was arrested Friday, June 26, after allegedly firing multiple shots following a verbal argument.

A 65-year-old Prineville man, Rocky Lee Klein, was arrested Tuesday, May 12, 2026, on SE Juniper Canyon Road on suspicion of selling methamphetamine.

A former Prineville Police dispatcher was arrested in a fatal crash that killed a bicyclist late Friday night in Prineville, according to jail records and other publicly available records.

The parents of a 20-month-old boy who died last year at a Prineville daycare are speaking publicly for the first time following a grand jury indictment in the case.

A Crook County woman has been indicted on charges including manslaughter following the September 2025 death of a toddler at an unlicensed day care, which she's accused of operating.

A traffic stop on U.S. Highway 26 near Madras led to a drug-detection K-9's alert, a search and the arrest of two men from Redmond and Prineville on drug charges, authorities said.

Officers with the Prineville Police Department responded Sunday evening to a reported domestic dispute that left one person seriously injured.

Prineville Police say officers arrested seven drivers for DUII during the Presidents’ Day weekend, highlighting what the department described as a series of preventable risks on local roads.