LAWRENCE, Massachusetts — Three people from Maine who admitted they drove to Lawrence Monday afternoon to buy drugs ended up paying a steep price for their excursion, police said.
Officer Gary Yancey was patrolling Storrow and Marston streets at 4:50 p.m. when he encountered a GMC pickup truck with a Maine plate. Residents of Maine and New Hampshire frequently come to Lawrence to buy drugs, law enforcement officials have noted on many occasions.
Using the laptop computer in his cruiser, Yancey discovered the plate had been issued to a 2002 Buick Century and had expired, police said.
Yancey flashed his blue lights and stopped the truck. The driver, Jason Emery, 39, of Hiram, Maine, admitted “the truck’s not registered,” according to the officer’s report.
A check of Emery’s license revealed it was suspended, police said.
Emery was arrested and charged with driving after license suspension and attaching wrong plates. The truck was towed by Coady’s.
Emery and the other two people with him admitted they had traveled from Hiram, a small town between the New Hampshire state line and Sebago Lake, to Lawrence to purchase drugs, police said. They had $300 with them for that purchase, according to Yancey’s report.
While Emery was taken to the station for booking, police contacted Yellow Cab to find out how much it would cost to bring his two passengers back to Hiram, which is about 100 miles from Lawrence.
Yellow Cab charged them $250 — which came out of the $300 stash they had for buying drugs, police said. That does not include what Emery had to pay to get his unregistered truck released from Coady’s.
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