{"id":82866,"date":"2016-11-17T02:20:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T07:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=82866"},"modified":"2016-11-17T02:20:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T07:20:15","slug":"malaysian-arrested-philippines-drugs-us-tipoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/11\/17\/malaysian-arrested-philippines-drugs-us-tipoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian arrested in Philippines for drugs after US tipoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014Philippine authorities said Wednesday a tipoff from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration allowed them to arrest a Malaysian man who allegedly tried to smuggle 4.6 kilograms (10 pounds) of suspected cocaine into the country.<\/p>\n<p>Bureau of Customs officials presented Nasir Uddin Bin Mohd Hasnan to the media at Manila&#8217;s international airport, where he was arrested on Wednesday. The 22-year-old, wearing a hooded jacket, covered his face with his hands as television cameras rolled.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said he was arrested Monday after arriving on an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa and Togo.<\/p>\n<p>They said he was carrying in his bag several canisters of chocolates containing 216 pieces of pellets of alleged cocaine valued at 23 million pesos ($468,000).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014Philippine authorities said Wednesday a tipoff from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration allowed them to arrest a Malaysian man &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":10581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[4395,851,343,2916],"class_list":["post-82866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-illegal-drugs","tag-malaysia","tag-philippines","tag-smuggling","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}