OAKLAND (WGME) — The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency says a Vassalboro man is facing charges after a chase that ended in Oakland.<\/p>\n
Agents say 24-year-old Edwin Lawrence has been under investigation for the past eight months for allegedly trafficking drugs out of his home on Webber Pond Road in Vassalboro.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, police learned that Lawrence was traveling back to Maine, allegedly with drugs in his possession.<\/p>\n
Around 8 p.m., Maine State Police pulled Lawrence over on I-295 just north of the West Gardiner tolls.<\/p>\n
As troopers approached the vehicle, they say Lawrence took of, leading to a short chase.<\/p>\n
Lawrence was arrested after allegedly trying to run away after his vehicle was stopped a second time.<\/p>\n
Agents say they found over 2,000 grams of cocaine in the vehicle and a little over $1,000 in drug money.<\/p>\n
The cocaine is estimated to be worth about $127,000.<\/p>\n
Police say they also executed a search warrant at Lawrence’s home but found nothing.<\/p>\n
Lawrence was charged with aggravated trafficking Schedule W drugs, eluding a police officer and refusing to submit to arrest or detention.<\/p>\n
He was taken to Kennebec County Correctional Facility, where bail was set at $92,000.<\/p>\n
The investigation into this incident is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND (WGME) — The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency says a Vassalboro man is facing charges after a chase…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-195354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}