{"id":245466,"date":"2004-06-24T13:13:29","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T17:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/06\/bahamian-drug-trafficking-gang-smashed"},"modified":"2004-06-24T13:13:29","modified_gmt":"2004-06-24T17:13:29","slug":"bahamian-drug-trafficking-gang-smashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/06\/bahamian-drug-trafficking-gang-smashed","title":{"rendered":"Bahamian Drug Trafficking Gang Smashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A joint initiative between the Bahamas, the US and countries in the Caribbean and South America has led to more than 50 arrests in the culmination of a 29-month investigation dubbed the &#8216;Caribbean Initiative&#8217;.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nIt was revealed in Washington that the initiative was a multifaceted attack on all levels of major drug trafficking organisations in the Caribbean corridor.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThese arrests, according to US Attorney General John Ashcroft, have smashed the Melvin Walter Maycock and Pedro Vincent Smith cartel operating out of the Bahamas and the Colombian Cobos cartel.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe proceeds of the organisations crimes are believed to have totalled more than $278 million.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<B>Source: Adam Jankiewicz, The Tribune<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bahamian drug trafficking gang that smuggled millions of dollars of cocaine into the United States has been smashed in a multinational operation it was disclosed yesterday.<\/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-245466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245466","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=245466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}