BEND, OR -- The Central Oregon Drug Enforcement (CODE) team ended a short-term investigation with the arrest of a 54-year-old Bend man. Drug agents say they saw a suspicious vehicle in a parking lot near Third Street and Mervin Samples Road Tuesday. They believed it was involved in a drug transaction and recognized the man from previous investigations. 

CODE detectives and Bend Police then contacted the suspect, Rory Camacho, while parked at a nearby storage facility. A drug detection K9 alerted to the presence of a controlled substance in the vehicle and the storage unit where the car was parked. 

After obtaining a search warrant, authorities found a commercial quanitity of meth and a double-edged "switch-blade" knife. Camacho was arrested and charged with unlawful possession and attempt to distribute meth, and being a felon in possession of a dangerous weapon.