06/25/09 Bend
 
Two Prineville residents are arrested for allegedly selling illegal prescription drugs from a Prineville business.  Their home is located across from an elementary school.
 
On Wednesday evening shortly after 8pm, detectives from the CODE team served a search warrant at an apartment in Prineville for illegal prescription medications. During the execution of the search warrant 52 year old Paul Perlman and 32 year old Celena Williams were taken into custody without incident. The warrant came at the end of a month-long investigation by the CODE team into the illegal trafficking of prescription medication by Perlman. Perlman and Williams share an apartment at 176 NE Holly.  During the investigation, detectives made undercover purchases of prescription medications (morphine) from Perlman while he was employed at the Beds For Less business in Prineville. The purchases were actually made from Perlman inside the business.
 
Members of the Prineville Police Department, along with the Prineville Police Drug Detection K9 Bo, assisted CODE detectives with the search of the apartment.  Detectives seized 30 morphine pills along with 24 other miscellaneous prescription pills (that are yet to be determined), meth pipes and meth residue, and 5 bags of marijuana (total weigh of less than one ounce) pre-packaged for sale.
 
The apartments at 176 NE Holly are located directly to the east and across the street from the playground at Crooked River Elementary School and less than a block from Pioneer High School, which is located at the corner of NE 3rd Street and NE Holly in Prineville.
 
Holly and Williams were both lodged in the Crook County Jail on the below listed charges.
 
Charges:       
 
Both were charged with MCS,DCS,PCS prescription pills-Morphine MCS,PCS,DCS marijuana, PCS II Methamphetamine, and Frequenting a Place where Drugs are Kept/Sold.
 
In addition to the above charges, Williams was placed on a detainer by Parole and Probations office.
 
The Crook County District Attorney will be adding the additional charge to both Perlman and Williams of Drug Possession within 1000 foot of a School.
 
The Central Oregon Drug Enforcement (CODE) Team is a multi-jurisdictional narcotics task force supported by the following Central Oregon law enforcement agencies:  Bend Police Department, Deschutes County Sheriff's Office, Redmond Police Department,  Prineville Police Department, Crook County Sheriff's Office, Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, Madras Police Department, Oregon State Police, United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Deschutes, Crook, and Jefferson County District Attorney, and the Oregon National Guard.