{"id":10420,"date":"2011-10-06T15:12:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T19:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10420"},"modified":"2011-10-06T14:44:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T18:44:14","slug":"dancehall-artist-vybz-kartel-charged-with-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10420","title":{"rendered":"Dancehall Artist Vybz Kartel Charged With Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KINGSTON, JAMAICA<\/strong> \u2014 One of Jamaica\u2019s most popular deejays has been charged with murder.<\/p>\n<p>A police statement issued Monday evening says dancehall star <strong>Vybz Kartel<\/strong> was charged with murder, conspiracy to murder and illegal possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Police accuse the rapper, whose real name is <strong>Adijah Palmer<\/strong>, of conspiring with others to kill a 27-year-old promoter who was slain on a street corner earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kartel\u2019s<\/strong> defense attorney, <strong>Tom Tavares-Finson<\/strong>, could not be reached about the allegations. The 35-year-old<strong> Kartel<\/strong> was initially arrested Friday for marijuana possession.<\/p>\n<p>Known for sexually explicit and violent lyrics, <strong>Kartel<\/strong> has previously been arrested on charges including assault and illegal gun possession. Those charges were later dropped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, JAMAICA \u2014 One of Jamaica\u2019s most popular deejays has been charged with murder. A police statement issued Monday evening says dancehall star Vybz Kartel was charged with murder, conspiracy to murder and illegal possession of a firearm. Police accuse the rapper, whose real name is Adijah Palmer, of conspiring with others to kill a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}