{"id":31978,"date":"2012-03-02T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/bachata-singer-jailed\/"},"modified":"2012-03-02T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T01:43:56","slug":"bachata-singer-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2012\/03\/02\/bachata-singer-jailed\/","title":{"rendered":"Bachata singer jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A court in the Dominican Republic has sentenced a New York bachata singer of Dominican heritage to six years in prison for drug trafficking, after being caught trying to smuggle more than a kilogram of heroin in his stomach on board a US-bound flight.<\/p>\n<p> Bachata singer Jaime Vargas was arrested in 2010 at Santo Domingo&#8217;s Las Americas International Airport when a couple of pellets he had swallowed burst. Known by the stage name Jimmy Bauer, he was hospitalized in a serious condition.<\/p>\n<p> He was sentenced on Wednesday February 29 by a panel of three judges. <\/p>\n<p> www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/celebrities\/dominican-judges-sentence-american-bachata-singer-to-6-years-for-smuggling-heroin-in-stomach\/2012\/02\/29\/gIQATWbwiR_story.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court in the Dominican Republic has sentenced a New York bachata singer of Dominican heritage to six years in prison for drug trafficking, after being caught trying to smuggle more than a kilogram of heroin in his stomach on board a US-bound flight. Bachata singer Jaime Vargas was arrested in 2010 at Santo Domingo&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2012\/03\/02\/bachata-singer-jailed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[231,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}