{"id":202120,"date":"2025-07-10T20:51:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T18:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-ldea-arrests-two-in-u-s-20k-kush-trafficking-bust-at-liberia-sierra-leone-border\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T20:51:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T18:51:43","slug":"sierra-leone-ldea-arrests-two-in-u-s-20k-kush-trafficking-bust-at-liberia-sierra-leone-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-ldea-arrests-two-in-u-s-20k-kush-trafficking-bust-at-liberia-sierra-leone-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone: LDEA Arrests Two in U.S.$20k Kush Trafficking Bust At Liberia-Sierra Leone Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"4\"><em>Published:<\/em> July 9, 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><strong>BO WATERSIDE, Grand Cape Mount County &#8212;<\/strong> The Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA) has arrested two men in possession of Kush worth US$20,000 at the Bo Waterside border crossing between Liberia and Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Kush, a highly dangerous synthetic drug wreaking havoc among Liberia&#8217;s youth, has become a quick source of illicit income, drawing individuals&#8211;including women&#8211;into its trafficking network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">The suspects, identified as Joseph Barclay, 26, a Liberian national, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507100656.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: July 9, 2025 BO WATERSIDE, Grand Cape Mount County &#8212; The Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA) has arrested two men in possession of Kush worth US$20,000 at the Bo Waterside border crossing between Liberia and Sierra Leone. Kush, a highly dangerous synthetic drug wreaking havoc among Liberia&#8217;s youth, has become a quick source of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,7845,1900,20155,37805,25767,6572,10373,257,6571,1135,254,6615,45831],"class_list":["post-202120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrests","tag-border","tag-bust","tag-kush","tag-ldea","tag-leone","tag-liberiasierra","tag-news","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trafficking","tag-u-s-20k"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}