{"id":5575,"date":"2011-01-11T10:58:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T15:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=5575"},"modified":"2011-01-11T11:54:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T16:54:16","slug":"melvin-maycock-extradition-circus-returns-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/01\/melvin-maycock-extradition-circus-returns-to-court","title":{"rendered":"Melvin Maycock Extradition Circus Returns To Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The extradition hearing of drug kingpin Melvin Maycock Sr is set to open (again) on Thursday.\u00a0 The case has been delayed numerous times, presumably because Mr Maycock&#8217;s testimony in a United States court could implicate senior policemen and politicians in The Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>The latest hearing will take place before Deputy Chief Magistrate Carolita Bethell.<\/p>\n<p>It was way back in 2004, when US prosecutors first requested Maycock&#8217;s extradition. He is accused of heading the Caribbean arm of a multi-national drug gang.<\/p>\n<p>US prosecutors also requested the extradition of 13 other men, including his son, Melvin Maycock Jr.\u00a0 Their extradition hearings have already commenced but are said to be &#8220;going nowhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maycock Sr was arrested in February 2008 and his case made headlines after he escaped from a holding cell at the Elizabeth Estates Police Station by switching places with his son.<\/p>\n<p>Maycock Sr was recaptured on June 20 following a high-speed police chase in western New Providence.<\/p>\n<p>The case is expected to drag on, or be dismissed, as Maycock allegedly has many police officers and court officials on his payroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corrupt members of the Bahamas legal system in the Bahamas are said to be figuring out new ways to delay the case or get their &#8220;boy&#8221; set free. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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":[93,67,38],"class_list":["post-5575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-drugs","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}