{"id":205295,"date":"2026-04-27T12:13:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=205295"},"modified":"2026-04-27T12:13:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:13:51","slug":"willshire-woman-facing-drug-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/04\/27\/willshire-woman-facing-drug-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Willshire woman facing drug charge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WAPAKONETA \u2013 A recent traffic stop along Interstate 75 in Auglaize County led to the discovery and seizure of approximately 1.5 pounds of suspected methanphetamine and the arrest of a Willshire woman.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FullsizeMugshotHandler.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-205296\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nicole Cooper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>According to a press release from the Auglaize County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Nicole Marcine Cooper, 43, was arrested last Thursday, April 23, after she was stopped at approximately 9:30 p.m. near mile marker 109 in the Wapakoneta area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An Auglaize County Sheriff\u2019s Office K-9 was requested to conduct a sniff of the vehicle and gave a positive indication. Deputies then searched the vehicle and found the suspected meth along with just over $800 in cash. Cooper was taken to the Auglaize County Corrections Center and was charged with drug possession. Her bond was set at $250,000, with a 10 percent provision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspected meth has a estimated street value of more than $20,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No other information is being released at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff WAPAKONETA \u2013 A recent traffic stop along Interstate 75 in Auglaize County led to the discovery and seizure of approximately 1.5 pounds of suspected methanphetamine and the arrest of a Willshire woman. According to a press release from the Auglaize County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Nicole Marcine Cooper, 43, was arrested last Thursday, April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 08:34:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205297,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205295\/revisions\/205297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}