{"id":2392,"date":"2010-09-24T10:05:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T14:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2010-09-24T10:05:19","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T14:05:19","slug":"damaging-testimony-in-buju-banton-cocaine-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/09\/damaging-testimony-in-buju-banton-cocaine-trial","title":{"rendered":"Damaging Testimony in Buju Banton Cocaine Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2393\" style=\"margin-left: 19px; margin-right: 19px;\" title=\"buju-banton\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/buju-banton-150x99.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/buju-banton-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/buju-banton-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/buju-banton.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Buju Banton, whose real name is Mark Myrie, could not stop shaking his head  as he listened for a lengthy period as the prosecution played  potentially damning recordings of his conversations with government  informant Alexander Johnson, discussing drug deals and even diamond  smuggling from Africa to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>As the tapes were being played, one woman could be seen  clutching her head and covering her ears. Others sat attentively,  captivated by the conversations between the four-time Grammy nominee and  Johnson, a convicted drug trafficker who has been working with the US  Government since 1996 to sink other narco dealers.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story\">Also played for the court was the video recording of December 8, 2009 in  which Banton was seen tasting cocaine from a knife given to him by his  long-time friend Ian Thomas after he used it to cut open a package  containing five kilogrammes of cocaine during an undercover operation by  the Sarasota Police Department at a warehouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prosecution played potentially damning recordings of Buju Banton&#8217;s conversations with government informant Alexander Johnson, discussing drug deals and even diamond smuggling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[10],"tags":[32,67,58],"class_list":["post-2392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-courts","tag-drugs","tag-jamaica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}