{"id":25754,"date":"2020-12-17T02:37:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T17:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/16\/ghost-boat-laden-with-cocaine-washes-up-in-the-marshall-islands"},"modified":"2020-12-17T02:37:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T17:37:13","slug":"ghost-boat-laden-with-cocaine-washes-up-in-the-marshall-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25754","title":{"rendered":"Ghost boat laden with cocaine washes up in the Marshall Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abandoned vessel containing 649kg of drug washes up on a remote Pacific atoll after potentially years at sea<\/p>\n<p>Police in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/marshall-islands\">Marshall Islands<\/a> have found the Pacific nation\u2019s largest-ever haul of cocaine in an abandoned boat that washed up on a remote atoll after drifting on the high seas, potentially for years.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney general Richard Hickson said the 5.5 metre (18ft) fibreglass vessel was found at Ailuk atoll last week with 649 kg (1,430lb ) of cocaine hidden in a compartment beneath the deck.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/16\/ghost-boat-laden-with-cocaine-washes-up-in-the-marshall-islands\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abandoned vessel containing 649kg of drug washes up on a remote Pacific atoll after potentially years at seaPolice in the Marshall Islands have found the Pacific nation\u2019s largest-ever haul of cocaine in an abandoned boat that washed up on a remote atol&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1057,602,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-drugs-trade","category-marshall-islands","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25755,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25754\/revisions\/25755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}