{"id":34234,"date":"2020-07-14T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=34234"},"modified":"2020-07-14T07:41:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T11:41:42","slug":"se-opp-wawa-male-arrested-after-search-warrant-executed-suspected-cocaine-money-confiscated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/14\/se-opp-wawa-male-arrested-after-search-warrant-executed-suspected-cocaine-money-confiscated\/","title":{"rendered":"SE OPP Wawa &#8211; Male Arrested after Search Warrant Executed, suspected cocaine &#038; money confiscated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-101\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-e1501592123859-300x236.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/>On July 9, 2020, at approximately 8:00 p.m., members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) North East Region Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) executed a Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) search warrant at a residence in Wawa.<\/p>\n<p>A search of the residence yielded a quantity of suspected cocaine as well as Canadian currency. The total street value of the cash and drugs seized was approximately $3,600.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the investigation, Benjamin LEWIS, 36 years-of-age, from Wawa, was arrested and charged with the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Possession of a Schedule I Substance for the Purpose of Trafficking &#8211; Cocaine, contrary to section 5(2) of the CDSA, and<\/li>\n<li>Possession of proceeds of property obtained by crime under $5000, contrary to section 354(1)(a) of the Criminal Code (CC).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The accused was released from custody and is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice on September 14, 2020, in Wawa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 9, 2020, at approximately 8:00 p.m., members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) North East Region Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) executed a Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) search warrant at a residence in Wawa. A search of the residence yielded a quantity of suspected cocaine as well as Canadian currency. The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[2590],"class_list":["post-34234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-benjamin-lewis"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 19:56:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34235,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34234\/revisions\/34235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}