SISTERS, OR -- Two people from Marion County with outstanding warrants were arrested in Sisters this week, with the help of an armored vehicle.

Deschutes County deputies surrounded a parked vehicle in the Chevron parking lot where 31-year-old Jamie Lee Denby was asleep. He’d arrived in Central Oregon with 32-year-old Shunea Myers, who told deputies she was also wanted, but didn’t feel safe with Denby. She said he was armed with a machete and believed he’d fight law enforcement if confronted.

Deputies and Black Butte Ranch poice contacted neighboring businesses and advised them to temporarily close. Denby was taken into custody without incident and the area reopened. DCSO says the incident was resolved within 32 minutes. 

Denby has three nationwide felony warrants, for kidnapping, coercion, extortion, assault and other charges. Myers was also arrested on her outstanding warrant stemming from failing to appear in court for car theft.