GRESHAM -- A woman was arrested after deputies said they found heroin and drug packaging materials in her apartment just outside Gresham and investigators said it was so filthy with garbage and feces that it made their eyes burn.

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Investigators released this photo of the kids' bedroom where they said feces were smeared on the floor.

Martha Diaz, 28, was arrested and her five- and eight-year-old daughters were taken into protective custody. Her apartment was located in the Alder Village apartment complex, near the 1600 block of SE Stark just outside Gresham city limits.

"The kids’ bedroom was covered with dog feces... eye-watering smell. Urine, feces, garbage; not good," said Deputy Paul McRedmond with the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office.

Investigators provided Newschannel 8 with a picture taken of a bedroom in the Diaz’s home that shows brown smeared all over the carpet.

Acting on a tip, investigators served a search warrant at the woman’s apartment, Thursday.

Deputies said after a two-week-long investigation, a narcotics dog located five balloon packaged grams of heroin with a street value of $500.

Diaz was released and was at home Friday while the Multnomah County district attorney’s office decided what charges she will face, deputies said.

Newschannel 8 went by Diaz’s apartment. She said she could not talk on camera, “because of her company.” She is the manager of the Alder Village Apartments.

Diaz is facing several charges including possible child endangerment charges, deputies said Friday.

Even so, deputies said they're working to get her kids back to her because there was no indication that she was doing the drugs herself and indicated there might be someone else involved with the operation.

KGW has also learned that her husband was deported.

Deputies said this is still a very active investigation.