{"id":9512,"date":"2015-09-25T21:33:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T01:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=9512"},"modified":"2015-09-25T21:33:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T01:33:12","slug":"slovak-police-seize-16-kilograms-of-khat-from-ethiopia-2-suspects-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/9512","title":{"rendered":"Slovak police seize 16 kilograms of khat from Ethiopia; 2 suspects arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img id=\"img312\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium sq_image\" title=\"khat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/khat-06.jpg\" alt=\"khat\" width=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some 16 kilograms of khat, a psychotropic drug (scientific name: <em>Catha edulis<\/em>) worth some $12,000 on the illegal market was seized at the post office on Tom\u00e1\u0161ikova street in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, on September 21.<\/p>\n<p>The package arrived one week earlier from Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEight plastic bags with dried plant were packed in two carton boxes,\u201d the Slovak Financial Administration spokesperson Patr\u00edcia Mac\u00edkov\u00e1 said, as quoted by the TASR newswire.<\/p>\n<p>After proper investigation, criminal experts revealed that the plant is on the list of prohibited substances.<\/p>\n<p>The police subsequently detained 35-year-old Austrian of Somali origin Adam A. I. and 25-year-old Czech David U., who went to the post office for the package, Mac\u00edkov\u00e1 added.<\/p>\n<p>The two men may now face prosecution. If the investigator lays charges against them, they will be threatened with three to 10 years in prison, TASR wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.sme.sk\/c\/20060680\/police-seize-16-kilograms-of-drugs-from-ethiopia.html\">The Slovak Spectator<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 16 kilograms of khat, a psychotropic drug (scientific name: Catha edulis) worth some $12,000 on the illegal market was seized at the post office on Tom\u00e1\u0161ikova street in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, on September 21. The package arrived<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/9512\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4993],"tags":[3176],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9516,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512\/revisions\/9516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}