{"id":242824,"date":"2006-07-21T10:26:18","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T14:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2006\/07\/opbat-officials-seize-marijuana-from-speed-boat"},"modified":"2006-07-21T10:26:18","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T14:26:18","slug":"opbat-officials-seize-marijuana-from-speed-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2006\/07\/opbat-officials-seize-marijuana-from-speed-boat","title":{"rendered":"OPBAT Officials Seize Marijuana From Speed Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police said the helicopter was on routine patrol when the officers spotted a go-fast boat operating at a high rate of speed.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, a chase then ensued, and once the helicopter caught up with the boat, officers noticed the occupants were attempting to sink the vessel, but it capsized.<\/p>\n<p>Officers said they arrested two Bahamian males, who are believed to be in their early 30s, and confiscated the drugs, which have an estimated street value of $238,500.<\/p>\n<p>Police said one suspect is believed to be a resident of Ragged Island, and the other a resident New Providence.<\/p>\n<p>The men were expected to appear in court on Friday to face charges in relation to the incident. <\/p>\n<p><small>By: Stephen Gay, The Bahama Journal<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement officials aboard an OPBAT helicopter on Wednesday afternoon confiscated 159 pounds of marijuana approximately eight miles off western New Providence, police reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242824","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}