{"id":327702,"date":"2026-07-02T20:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/327702\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T20:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:47:07","slug":"531-grams-of-meth-found-in-cape-coral-home-after-months-long-investigation-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/327702\/","title":{"rendered":"531 grams of meth found in Cape Coral home after months-long investigation | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK)\u2014A Cape Coral man faces multiple felony charges after police seized more than 1,600 grams of illegal drugs from his home.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, July 1, the Cape Coral Police Department&#8217;s SWAT Team executed a search warrant at a home in the 3500 block of NW 8th Terrace at approximately 6:50 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/capecops.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cape Coral Police Department<\/a>, the Narcotics Unit had been investigating the residence for suspected illegal drug activity before obtaining the warrant.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Untitled design - 1\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Cape Coral Police Department<\/p>\n<p>Narcotics detectives searched the home and seized more than 531 grams of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/search\/?f=html&amp;t=article&amp;s=start_time&amp;sd=desc&amp;l=25&amp;nsa=eedition&amp;q=methamphetamine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">methamphetamine<\/a>, LSD, nearly 925 grams of marijuana, close to 195 grams of Xanax pills, along with drug paraphernalia and U.S. currency.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Evan Evans, 29, was taken into custody at the scene and transported to the Cape Coral Police Department for processing.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Untitled design - 1\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Cape Coral Police Department<\/p>\n<p>Evans now faces multiple charges, including drug trafficking for the methamphetamine, possession of Xanax with intent to sell and possession of drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK)\u2014A Cape Coral man faces multiple felony charges after police seized more than 1,600 grams&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,4469,28,135337,5049,4571,40981],"class_list":["post-327702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-cape-coral-police-department","tag-florida","tag-narcotics-unit","tag-search-warrant","tag-united-states","tag-xanax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}