{"id":1645,"date":"2010-09-02T09:15:21","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T13:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2010-09-02T09:15:21","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T13:15:21","slug":"police-officers-being-investigated-for-extortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/09\/police-officers-being-investigated-for-extortion","title":{"rendered":"Police Officers Being Investigated For Extortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Bahamas police officers are being investigated after a woman reported that she had been extorted in a routine traffic stop.<\/p>\n<p>In an uncredited article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tribune242.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Tribune<\/a> newspaper, it was reported that Assistant Commissioner of Police Hulan Hanna confirmed that two officers were under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the investigation were unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>The Tribune, using unnamed sources, reported that a woman was driving on Old Trail Road when she was stopped and searched by two police officers.<\/p>\n<p>After arresting her and confiscating her computer, the police officers allegedly told the owman that they would release her for $200.<\/p>\n<p>She paid the officers and was released.<\/p>\n<p>This incident comes on the heels of another report on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogbahamas.com\/blog_bahamas\/2010\/09\/where-are-the-bahamian-police.html#more\">WeblogBahamas<\/a> website involving two police officers who shook down two teenagers last weekend after a routine traffic stop.<\/p>\n<p>The cops informed the two boys that they could lock them up for the weekend but if they gave each officer $100 they would let them go.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear from either report if the incidents are connected or if they involve the same two officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Bahamas police officers are being investigated after a woman reported that she had been extorted in a routine traffic stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[93,38],"class_list":["post-1645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}