{"id":14635,"date":"2011-11-03T11:54:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T15:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=14635"},"modified":"2011-11-03T11:54:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T15:54:30","slug":"drug-lord-melvin-maycock-sr-gets-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/11\/drug-lord-melvin-maycock-sr-gets-three-years","title":{"rendered":"Drug Lord Melvin Maycock Sr. Gets Three Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14457\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14457\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14457\" title=\"melvin-maycock-sr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/melvin-maycock-sr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/melvin-maycock-sr.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/melvin-maycock-sr-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melvin Maycock Sr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A magistrate jailed an alleged drug lord for three years on charges stemming from a major marijuana and weapons seizure in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Melvin Maycock Sr., 45, was convicted for having 1,200 pounds of marijuana with intent to supply and possession of three firearms and assorted ammunition of various calibers.<\/p>\n<p>The drugs have a wholesale street value of $1.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the Drug Enforcement Unit found the contraband when they raided a villa on Marine Drive, off West Bay Street, on May 17, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The residence was unoccupied when officers carried out the search in the presence of the landlord.<\/p>\n<p>However, police lifted Maycock\u2019s fingerprint off one of the drug-filled packages, the court heard. Despite this forensic evidence, Maycock maintained that he had never been in the building.<\/p>\n<p>According to Maycock, he was in his hometown of Duncan Town, Ragged Island, when the seizure was made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melvin Maycock Sr. was convicted on drug and firearms charges and sentenced to three years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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":[32,31,67],"class_list":["post-14635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14635","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}