{"id":221683,"date":"2026-01-23T23:23:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ldea-disrobes-margibi-county-commander\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T23:23:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:23:03","slug":"liberia-ldea-disrobes-margibi-county-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ldea-disrobes-margibi-county-commander\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Ldea Disrobes Margibi County Commander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA) has, with immediate effect, disrobed its Margibi County Commander for allegedly allowing a female drug suspect to escape from custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">On Saturday, January 17, 2026, LDEA officers in Weala arrested two individuals, a male and a female, allegedly linked to illegal drug possession. The suspects were held at the agency&#8217;s Margibi County detention facility and were expected to be forwarded to court when it reopened on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">However, in the early hours of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601230276.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA) has, with immediate effect, disrobed its Margibi County Commander for allegedly allowing a female drug suspect to escape from custody. On Saturday, January 17, 2026, LDEA officers in Weala arrested two individuals, a male and a female, allegedly linked to illegal drug possession. The suspects were held at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":221684,"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":[1086],"tags":[258,256,6771,5091,53484,25767,4712,1107,12038,257,254],"class_list":["post-221683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commander","tag-county","tag-disrobes","tag-ldea","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-margibi","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/221683","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=221683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}