{"id":29974,"date":"2013-01-07T09:44:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T14:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=29974"},"modified":"2013-01-07T09:44:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T14:44:10","slug":"colombia-arrests-bahamian-for-drug-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/01\/colombia-arrests-bahamian-for-drug-trafficking","title":{"rendered":"Colombia Arrests Bahamian For Drug Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/01\/colombia-arrests-bahamian-for-drug-trafficking-29974.html\/cuffs\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29978\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29978\" title=\"cuffs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cuffs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cuffs.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cuffs-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>According to Luis Alberto Perez, director of Colombia&#8217;s anti-narcotrafficking unit, Colombian authorities have detained a Bahamian citizen wanted on drug trafficking charges in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Ian Ferguson was arrested in Monteria, approximately 310 miles northeast of Bogota.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson, who goes by the alias &#8216;Matlock&#8217;, is thought to have worked with Colombian and Mexican drug cartels. Perez claimed Ferguson arranged the transportation of Colombian drugs into Mexico through Venezuela and Central America.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson is also suspected of having worked for Daniel Barrera Barrera, a Colombian drug lord who was detained in Venezuela in September.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has issued an extradition request for Ferguson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Luis Alberto Perez, director of Colombia&#8217;s anti-narcotrafficking unit, Colombian authorities have detained a Bahamian citizen wanted on drug trafficking charges in the United States. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[12],"tags":[499,916],"class_list":["post-29974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-bahamas","tag-drug-trafficking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29974","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}