{"id":9628,"date":"2011-09-05T15:08:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T19:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9628"},"modified":"2011-09-02T14:43:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T18:43:30","slug":"jamaican-drug-lord-pleads-guilty-to-gun-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9628","title":{"rendered":"Jamaican Drug Lord Pleads Guilty To  Gun Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamaican drug lord, <strong>Christopher &#8220;Dudus&#8221; Coke<\/strong>, who was the centerpiece of a drug war in Kingston that last over a year, killing a number of Jamaicans, pleaded guilty in a Manhattan courtroom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coke<\/strong> was captured on his way to turn himself in to the U.S. Embassy in Jamaica, and is facing drug and trafficking charges.<\/p>\n<p>Indicted by the U.S. in 2009,<strong> Coke<\/strong> became the target of a massive Jamaican police operation in May 2010, sparking a bloody street battle between local security forces and <strong>Coke&#8217;s<\/strong> gun-toting supporters and mercenaries in the west Kingston neighborhood of Tivoli Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>After a month of violent struggle, it was a popular local preacher that managed to arrange <strong>Coke&#8217;s<\/strong> peaceful surrender to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of his surrender, <strong>Coke<\/strong> said that he chose to accept extradition rather than watch the bloodshed in Jamaica continue. More than 70 people had already died in the violence.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Coke<\/strong> is scheduled to be sentenced on December 8th, and could face up to 20 years behind bars and deportation back to Jamaica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamaican drug lord, Christopher &#8220;Dudus&#8221; Coke, who was the centerpiece of a drug war in Kingston that last over a year, killing a number of Jamaicans, pleaded guilty in a Manhattan courtroom. Coke was captured on his way to turn himself in to the U.S. Embassy in Jamaica, and is facing drug and trafficking charges. [&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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628","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=9628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}