{"id":5376,"date":"2026-02-13T23:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/5376\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T23:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:27:17","slug":"new-bern-police-seize-2-kilos-of-suspected-cocaine-after-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/5376\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bern police seize 2 kilos of suspected cocaine after traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Police are calling Saturday\u2019s capture of a New Bern man a major drug arrest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">New Bern police arrested Kevin Ringling after a traffic stop on U.S. 70 around 10:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A K-9 alerted officers to drugs, and they found more than 2 kilos of what they believe is cocaine. They estimate the street values of between $133,000 and $444,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 53-year-old Ringling was charged with trafficking in cocaine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The man was jailed on a $1 million secured bond and is due in court today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Police are calling Saturday\u2019s capture of a New Bern man a major drug&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[4553,104,3269,967],"class_list":["post-5376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bern","tag-arrest","tag-bern","tag-cocaine","tag-new"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}