Traffic Stop by City Police Results in Man's Arrest for Meth, Marijuana Possession and Hundreds in Cash
By Connect-Bridgeport Staff on February 26, 2020 via Connect-Bridgeport.com
According to this report from WBOY, a Fairmont man has been arrested in Bridgeport after police find marijuana and methamphetamine 
during a routine traffic stop.
during a routine traffic stop.
On Feb. 24, officers with the Bridgeport Police Department conducted a traffic stop on a green 2000 Dodge Caravan for having a loud exhaust on W.Va. Rt. 707 near W.Va. Rt. 279 in Bridgeport, according to a criminal complaint.
Officers approached the driver, identified as Lawrence Vincent, 46, of Fairmont, and informed him for the reason of the traffic stop, officers said, and found that Vincent’s license had been suspended for “mandatory insurance.”
When officers returned to Vincent’s vehicle to inform him of his license being suspended, they asked if there was anything illegal in the vehicle, and he responded by saying that there was marijuana inside, according to the complaint.
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Editor's Note: Photo courtesy of WBOY.
