{"id":680887,"date":"2026-03-25T14:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/680887\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:14:13","slug":"la-grange-man-arrested-on-drug-charges-during-kinston-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/680887\/","title":{"rendered":"La Grange man arrested on drug charges during Kinston traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">KINSTON, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A La Grange man is behind bars on drug trafficking charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">22-year-old Broadus Bratton Jr. was pulled over by Kinston police officers yesterday around 3:50 p.m. on Rouse Road near Carey Road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During the stop, officers say they found a pill bottle containing hydrocodone pills without a valid prescription. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Bratton was arrested and charged with two counts of trafficking opium\/heroin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was taken to the Lenoir County Jail under a $500,000 bond. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KINSTON, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A La Grange man is behind bars on drug trafficking charges. 22-year-old Broadus Bratton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":680888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,57300,39473,92925,286277,2961,14692,286278,224,5337,55480,36907],"class_list":["post-680887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-drug-charges","tag-drug-trafficking","tag-kinston","tag-kinston-police-department","tag-la","tag-la-grange","tag-lenoir-county-jail","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-traffic-stop","tag-witn"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116290235777929657","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}