{"id":240098,"date":"2026-08-01T19:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T17:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberias-top-cop-drops-bombshell-then-turns-on-the-press\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T19:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T17:15:06","slug":"liberias-top-cop-drops-bombshell-then-turns-on-the-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberias-top-cop-drops-bombshell-then-turns-on-the-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia&#8217;s Top Cop Drops Bombshell, Then Turns On the Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"71\">MONROVIA \u2014 <em>Without naming a single name, Liberia&#8217;s Inspector General told the nation Thursday that its record cocaine scandal was &#8220;sanctioned&#8221; from the top of government. In the same breath, he accused journalists of taking cartel money to sabotage the investigation. Both claims landed without evidence attached &#8212; and both now hang over a crisis that already has a fired police official, two accused NSA operatives, and a presidential son on the record.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"74\">Without naming names, Gregory Coleman, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607310244.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>MONROVIA \u2014 Without naming a single name, Liberia&#8217;s Inspector General told the nation Thursday that its record cocaine scandal was &#8220;sanctioned&#8221; from the top of government. In the same breath, he accused journalists of taking cartel money to sabotage the investigation. Both claims landed without evidence attached &#8212; and both now hang over a crisis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,13900,7769,6520,1107,8536,257,6010,254,7319,7907],"class_list":["post-240098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bombshell","tag-cop","tag-drops","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberias","tag-news","tag-press","tag-south-africa-today","tag-top","tag-turns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240098","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=240098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}