{"id":10038,"date":"2011-07-06T09:31:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T13:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=10038"},"modified":"2011-07-06T09:31:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T13:31:29","slug":"car-smuggling-ring-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/07\/car-smuggling-ring-exposed","title":{"rendered":"Car Smuggling Ring Exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A multinational investigation is currently underway into a car smuggling ring that has seen the importation and resale of dozens of stolen &#8220;high-end&#8221; vehicles currently being driven on the streets of Nassau.<\/p>\n<p>At least 85 persons so far have purchased high value vehicles ranging from Mercedes, BMWs, Lexus, Jaguars, and Hummers that have all been stolen out of New York and Miami.<\/p>\n<p>These vehicles, which are labelled as having been &#8220;damaged or wrecked&#8221; cars to account for their drastic decrease in value are smuggled to the Bahamas in containers by a local dock at the Miami river and off-loaded at night at Arawak Cay.<\/p>\n<p>A customs officer is reportedly being paid to provide fake documentation alleging that Customs fees are being paid so that the vehicles would have some &#8220;proof&#8221; of having being cleared at the docks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major investigation is still underway into an ongoing luxury car smuggling ring, which has brought dozens of illegal cars into the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[93,31,106],"class_list":["post-10038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-customs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}