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Three who gave fake names to police during Lebanon traffic stop face multiple charges

Left to right: Shannon Houle, Sasha Wooster, Shaun Laws (Photo: Maine State Police)


LEBANON, Maine (WGAN) Three people who provided fake names to police during a traffic stop in Lebanon are facing several charges.

Maine State Police say they stopped a vehicle on Route 202 on Sunday for multiple violations. The driver, 28-year-old Sasha Wooster of Berwick, gave police a fake name. They determined she had a felony warrant out of New Hampshire for possession of dangerous drugs. Police said two out of the remaining three people in the car were also providing false names.

A passenger, 29-year-old Shaun Laws of Rochester, New Hampshire, was prohibited from having contact with another female, also inside the car, due to multiple Protection From Abuse Orders. Another woman inside the car, 27-year-old Shannon Houle, of Rochester, was found to have an active Maine warrant for her arrest for failing to pay fines for a Drug Possession and OUI charge.

Police searched the car and found drug paraphernalia along with a small amount of illegal drugs. They say Wooster had crystal methamphetamine on her person, and was on probation for a drug charge. She’s being held without bail as a Fugitive from Justice, as well as drug charges, failure to provide her name to police, and a probation hold.

Laws is being held without bail for violation of a protection from abuse order, and unlawful possession of a Schedule W drug.

Houle was issued a $250 bail for the arrest warrant and drug possession.

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