{"id":195644,"date":"2026-02-27T00:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195644\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T00:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:23:10","slug":"vassalboro-man-arrested-in-oakland-after-police-seize-several-pounds-of-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/195644\/","title":{"rendered":"Vassalboro man arrested in Oakland after police seize several pounds of drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OAKLAND, Maine (WABI) &#8211; A Vassalboro man was arrested in Oakland after police said they found several pounds of cocaine in his vehicle during a traffic stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency says a vehicle driven by Edwin Lawrence, 24, was stopped by State Troopers around 8 p.m., Wednesday near the West Gardiner tolls on I-295.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Agents said they believed he was coming back to the state with a large amount of narcotics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Agents said Lawrence drove off as officers made their way toward the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Authorities said they stopped Lawrence again in Oakland using tire deflation devices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lawrence ran away but was caught quickly, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When troopers searched his vehicle, they say they found 2,000 grams of cocaine, and more than $1,000 in suspected drug money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said the value of the cocaine was more than $125,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Drug agents then searched Lawrence\u2019s home on Webber Pond but did not find any more evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lawrence is charged with drug trafficking, eluding an officer, and refusing to submit to arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WABI. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Maine (WABI) &#8211; A Vassalboro man was arrested in Oakland after police said they found several pounds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,91313],"class_list":{"0":"post-195644","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","11":"tag-poll-question-and-results"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195644","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=195644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}