{"id":243839,"date":"2003-08-07T20:52:41","date_gmt":"2003-08-08T00:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/08\/10-million-in-cocaine-found-in-freeport"},"modified":"2003-08-07T20:52:41","modified_gmt":"2003-08-08T00:52:41","slug":"10-million-in-cocaine-found-in-freeport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/08\/10-million-in-cocaine-found-in-freeport","title":{"rendered":"$10 Million in Cocaine Found in Freeport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DEU and DEA officers made the discovery around 4:30pm Tuesday after searching a suspicious 20-foot container from Colombia, police reported yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The 1,116 pounds of cocaine were contained in nine &quot;very large&quot; duffel bags, according to a police report.<P><br \/>\nThe container arrived in The Bahamas on Sunday, August 3, aboard MSC Jasmine inbound from Bueno Venturo, Columbia, and was awaiting transhipment to Antwerp, Belgium, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The &quot;dangerous&quot; drugs were transported to New Providence aboard an OPBAT (Operation Bahamas and Turks and Caicos) helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>\nA joint investigation involving the DEU, DEA and Interpol has been launched into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the third reported major drug find at the container Port since the PLP resumed office in May, 2002.<\/p>\n<p><font size=1>Source:  The Tribune<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1000 pounds of cocaine, with a suspected street value of $10 miilion, were found hidden among large sacks of Columbian coffee beans at the Freeport Container Port.<\/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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243839","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=243839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}