BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — A 21-year-old Portland man faces multiple charges after a Sunday morning chase ended in a crash and suspected overdose.
At 7:36 a.m., Deschutes County Sheriff’s deputies responded to reports of an impaired driver weaving southbound on U.S. Highway 97 toward Bend. They spotted Jaiden Robert Telford’s Ford F-350 sideswipe the median on the Bend Parkway near Empire Avenue and attempted a traffic stop. Telford fled at high speed, prompting deputies to lose sight of him.
Around 8:05 a.m., Bend Police arrived at a crash scene near NE Eighth Street and Bennington Lane. Officers identified Telford’s stolen truck – reported out of Multnomah County – and found him passed out behind the wheel. Suspecting an overdose, they administered multiple doses of Narcan before medics transported him to St. Charles Bend…