{"id":300541,"date":"2019-05-30T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T20:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=300541"},"modified":"2019-05-30T06:00:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T20:00:14","slug":"grammy-award-winners-drug-possession-case-in-guam-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/grammy-award-winners-drug-possession-case-in-guam-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammy award winner\u2019s drug possession case in Guam closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HAGATNA, Guam <\/strong>(AP)\u2014A drug possession case in Guam involving a Grammy Award-winning singer has been closed.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific Daily News reported Monday that a superior court judge in Hagatna ordered the case against Yvonne Elliman-Alexander and her husband, Allen Alexander, to be closed after they completed all requirements of their sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Elliman-Alexander won a 1978 Grammy for \u201cIf I Can\u2019t Have You\u201d on the \u201cSaturday Night Fever\u201d soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p>Court records say the couple was charged with drug possession by airport authorities when they arrived in Guam for a 2017 benefit concert.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the couple had 3.3 grams of suspected marijuana, 3.5 grams of crystal-like rocks, a straw of suspected methamphetamine, and paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the couple was allowed to complete drug court sessions in Hawaii while caring for Elliman-Alexander\u2019s mother there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAGATNA, Guam (AP)\u2014A drug possession case in Guam involving a Grammy Award-winning singer has been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":303056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[51,1806],"class_list":["post-300541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pacific","tag-guam","tag-hagatna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}