Seen elsewhere: “they put the father in prison in bend, then the next night they put him in prison in Portland. its a very long drive all the way to Portland. like across the state. Portland is almost to the ocean. that was purely to intimidate him and his family, obviously. poor old man handcuffed in a police car for that long.”
Portland and Bend are about 3 hours apart. Portland is 1.5 hours from the coast.
Portland is at the north end of the Willamette Valley, at the convergence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers. Bend is just over the mountains that form the eastern side of the Willamette Valley. The coastal range forms the western side of the Willamette Valley.
HOWEVER... Burns is much further away from Portland than Bend. It is 5 hours from Portland. I think your source is pretty mixed up. It makes no sense to take someone from Malhuer County to Bend. That is about a 7 hour drive, from the eastern border 2/3 to 3/4 of the way across the state. Burns makes more sense.