{"id":56939,"date":"2001-03-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-03-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/96e6f55a-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2001-03-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-03-30T00:00:00","slug":"96e6f56e-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/96e6f56e-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Students nabbed for pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three Hopwood Junior High School students were nabbed by police this week for possession of controlled substances.<\/p>\n<p>The juveniles, a group of 15-year-old Palauan, 12-year-old Chamorro and 12-year-old Filipino males, were arrested for allegations of &#8220;passing the bug&#8221; or channeling among themselves four joints of marijuana since Tuesday, March 27 inside Saipan&#8217;s lone junior high school campus.<\/p>\n<p>According to police reports, the Palauan boy first took possession of the illegal substances during the first day when he passed it on to his Chamorro friend on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Come Thursday, the Chamorro boy handed the controlled substances to his Filipino schoolmate, who later on threw it to the trash can.<\/p>\n<p>Police records note that a witness who noticed the Filipino student dump the substances into the garbage relayed what he saw to a Hopwood teacher, who in turn, confiscated the marijuana and reported the incident to the principal.<\/p>\n<p>The Filipino student was summoned to the principal&#8217;s office, where he blew the whistle on the first two students who took possession of the drugs before him.<\/p>\n<p>The three were all arrested for illegal possession of controlled substance. They were booked at the juvenile office for processing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Hopwood Junior High School students were nabbed by police this week for possession of controlled substances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56939","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}