{"id":248374,"date":"2005-12-19T12:38:08","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/12\/witness-no-show-gets-accused-off-drug-charges"},"modified":"2005-12-19T12:38:08","modified_gmt":"2005-12-19T17:38:08","slug":"witness-no-show-gets-accused-off-drug-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/12\/witness-no-show-gets-accused-off-drug-charges","title":{"rendered":"Witness No-Show Gets Accused Off Drug Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Omar Moore, Paul Pratt and Maroin Adderley were all charged with taking steps to smuggle 4-1\/2 pounds, or two kilos of cocaine worth $30,000, into Florida.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The three suspects were arrested at Nassau Airport. But Bahamas police prosecutors failed to provide any evidence against the men because the witnesses did not come to court.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Instead of demanding warrants for the arrest of the witnesses, Prosecuting Inspector Leamond Deleveaux asked Magistrate Carolita Bethell to drop the case against the men. \uffa0The charges were dropped.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SMALL>Source: The Punch &#8211; Nassau, Bahamas<\/SMALL><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A police prosecutor dropped a cocaine case against three men after his witnesses failed to show up to give evidence in court.<\/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-248374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248374","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=248374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}