{"id":32639,"date":"2013-03-06T22:52:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T03:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=32639"},"modified":"2013-03-06T23:27:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T04:27:31","slug":"airport-cocaine-smugglers-growing-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/03\/airport-cocaine-smugglers-growing-concern","title":{"rendered":"Airport Cocaine Smugglers A Growing Concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/03\/airport-cocaine-smugglers-increasing-source-of-concern-32639.html\/coke-s\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32642\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32642\" title=\"coke-s\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/coke-s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/coke-s.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/coke-s-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>The United States Statement Department is concerned about the rising number of cocaine smuggling through Bahamian airports, primarily cases in which Lyndon Pindling International Airport staff are involved.<\/p>\n<p>Aviation routes used by drug traffickers between the Bahamas and the United States were labeled \u201can increasing source of concern,\u201d according to a newly released report, which also discussed the availability of drugs in prison, the increase in marijuana use among students, and the police\u2019s inability to tackle Haitian-Bahamian drug gangs.<\/p>\n<p>The report said: \u201cRecent law enforcement information points to increased smuggling through air traffic, both by newly established commercial traffic from South and Central America and through private planes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUS law enforcement analysts anticipate that sustained law enforcement pressure on networks in Central America will continue to compel illicit drug traffickers to re-establish both alternate and historic drug smuggling routes from producer countries to the United States, including through the Bahamas.\u201d<br \/>\nThe report adds: \u201cThere has also been a rise in the interdiction of cocaine at the international airport by Customs and Border Protection agents working at the pre-clearance facility, with at least one case allegedly involving staff employed by the Nassau Airport Authority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Drug smuggling by boat remains a major concern, the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Statement Department has growing concern over the rising number of cocaine smuggling through Bahamian airports, primarily cases in which Lyndon Pindling International Airport staff are involved. <\/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":[242,499,1322,113],"class_list":["post-32639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-airport","tag-bahamas","tag-cocaine-smuggling","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32639","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=32639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}