{"id":68367,"date":"2014-02-07T17:57:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T13:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=68367"},"modified":"2014-02-07T17:57:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T13:57:21","slug":"australian-authorities-destroy-630-million-worth-of-heroin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=68367","title":{"rendered":"Australian authorities destroy $630 million worth of heroin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian navy has destroyed nearly 353 kilograms (780 pounds) of heroin after intercepting the drugs on a smuggling vessel off the coast of Tanzania, the Australian Department of Defense said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities estimate the street value at 706 million Australian dollars ($630 million U.S.).<\/p>\n<p>A team from the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne boarded the smuggler ship Wednesday during a sweep, according to a prepared statement.<\/p>\n<p>It tested the substance on board, determined it to be heroin, then confiscated it. Members then extracted samples and destroyed the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian navy has destroyed nearly 353 kilograms (780 pounds) of heroin after intercepting the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":68366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}