{"id":27466,"date":"2016-08-05T02:33:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T02:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/briton-charged-with-trafficking-100kg-of-cocaine\/"},"modified":"2016-08-05T02:32:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T02:32:54","slug":"briton-charged-with-trafficking-100kg-of-cocaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/briton-charged-with-trafficking-100kg-of-cocaine\/","title":{"rendered":"Briton charged with trafficking 100kg of cocaine into Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A British man has appeared in court accused of trafficking nearly 100kg (220lbs) of cocaine into Kenya.}<\/p>\n<p>Jack Alexander Wolf Marrian, a sugar trader who lives and works in the country, denied the charge at a court in Kenya and was remanded in custody pending a bail hearing on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A Kenyan national, Roy Francis Mwanthi, also denies the charges.<\/p>\n<p>The pair were charged after drugs said to be worth about \u00a34m were found in a container at the port of Mombasa.<\/p>\n<p>The shipment had come from Brazil and was on its way to Uganda when it was found by Kenyan authorities and US Drug Enforcement Agency officials, the court heard.<\/p>\n<p>Details of Mr Marrian&#8217;s age, where he comes from in the UK, or how long he has lived in Kenya are not known.<\/p>\n<p>Cocaine seizures are rare in Kenya, but the United Nations says it has become a hub for smugglers over the past few years on the route from South America to Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n<p>There was uncertainty over a third suspect, another Kenyan, who was initially questioned by police when the drugs were found, BBC News Africa correspondent Alastair Leithead said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-13990 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_90675008_mediaitem90675006.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Marrian appeared in court where he denied drug trafficking\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A British man has appeared in court accused of trafficking nearly 100kg (220lbs) of cocaine into Kenya.} Jack Alexander Wolf Marrian, a sugar trader who lives and works in the country, denied the charge at a court in Kenya and was remanded in custody pending a bail hearing on Monday. A Kenyan national, Roy Francis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-27466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27466"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=27466"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=27466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}