{"id":22202,"date":"2013-07-01T15:43:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T20:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=22202"},"modified":"2013-07-01T17:54:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T22:54:35","slug":"22-people-charged-in-drug-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=22202","title":{"rendered":"22 Charged In Fort Berthold Reservation Drug Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Federal authorities have charged 22 people with conspiracy to sell heroin and other drugs on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in the heart of North Dakota oil country.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is dubbed &#8220;Operation Winter&#8217;s End.&#8221; The first case was filed in March, but authorities did not unseal the indictments until Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say dealers moved the drugs from other parts of the country to western North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say organized crime and other illegal activity is increasing with the skyrocketing population in the state&#8217;s booming oil patch.<\/p>\n<p>Federal officials have increased policing efforts in oil country by adding several FBI agents in Minot and Bismarck and a Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms agent in Bismarck.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Attorney Timothy Purdon was not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Federal authorities have charged 22 people with conspiracy to sell heroin and other drugs on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in the heart of North Dakota oil country. The investigation is dubbed &#8220;Operation Winter&#8217;s End.&#8221; The first case was filed in March, but authorities did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22202"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22222,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22202\/revisions\/22222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}