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07/18/2008

A car stopped on Route 9 in Chelsea led Maine State Police troopers to find an assortment of prescription drugs inside, along with cocaine and marijuana.

The incident was one of several drug-related seizures in recent days, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said in a news release.

In other incidents:

* A man was stopped for speeding along Route 26 in West Paris and a search of his car turned up 10 grams of cocaine and $5,200, McCausland said.

John Dunroe, 45, of Holden, faces several charges including speeding 90 mph in a 55 mph zone, violating bail and trafficking in cocaine.

* Another trooper stopped a car in Auburn for an expired inspection sticker and found marijuana and $5,500 in the car.

* Another vehicle was stopped in Greene after the driver was spotted not wearing his seat belt. Found inside that car was morphine on a spoon and in a syringe.

* Troopers also stopped a car on the Maine Turnpike after being alerted by Maine Drug Enforcement Agency agents. A search found a quarter-pound of crack cocaine in the trunk.

MDEA Director Roy McKinney reports that his agents made 360 drug arrests during the first six months of the year.

- Doug Harlow

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