{"id":74034,"date":"2025-08-24T17:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T17:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74034"},"modified":"2025-08-24T17:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T17:49:10","slug":"police-arrest-four-suspected-drug-dealers-in-uyo-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/24\/police-arrest-four-suspected-drug-dealers-in-uyo-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest Four Suspected Drug Dealers in Uyo Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested four men suspected of peddling illicit drugs during a late-night raid in Uyo.<\/p>\n<p>Command spokesperson, Timfon John, said in a statement on Sunday that the operation was conducted around 10 p.m. on August 18, following credible intelligence that led officers to several drug black spots in the city.<\/p>\n<p>A large quantity of substances believed to be Indian hemp and other narcotics was recovered during the raid.<\/p>\n<p>John added that investigations are ongoing to trace the source of the drugs, while the suspects remain in custody pending prosecution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested four men suspected of peddling illicit drugs during a late-night raid in Uyo. Command spokesperson, Timfon John, said in a statement on Sunday that the operation was conducted around 10 p.m. on August 18, following credible intelligence that led officers to several drug [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74036,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74034\/revisions\/74036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}