{"id":37265,"date":"2012-05-07T15:24:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T13:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=37265"},"modified":"2012-05-08T12:53:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T10:53:35","slug":"man-hides-cocaine-bricks-in-xbox-gets-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/37265-man-hides-cocaine-bricks-in-xbox-gets-busted","title":{"rendered":"Man hides cocaine bricks in Xbox, gets busted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Xbox 360\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19882-Xbox-360\">Xbox 360<\/a> has now officially been added to the list of things you can&#8217;t smuggle drugs in after a man was arrested with a console stuffed with huge bricks of cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Valenzuela might actually have gotten away with it too, except he was pulled over by the rozzers after forgetting to indicate before turning a corner at an intersection in Texas. What a noob.<\/p>\n<p>Police from the El Paso County Sheriff&#8217;s Office reportedly noticed that Valenzuela was agitated and kept looking at a bag in the car, prompting the cops to search the car and turn up a big bag of nose candy. After bringing in sniffer dogs, two more bricks of the stuff were found inside an emptied Xbox console.<\/p>\n<p>Valenzuela was charged with manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance, and put on a $25,000 bail. And to think, all this could have been avoided if he&#8217;d just put the drugs in his bum like a regular smuggler.<\/p>\n<p>Next up, FOX News manages to spin this entire story into proof that video games are addictive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Cocaine-Xbox-360.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37252 aligncenter\" title=\"Cocaine Xbox 360\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Cocaine-Xbox-360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5908080\/drug-smuggler-hides-cocaine-in-xbox-360-fails\" target=\"_blank\">Kotaku<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t try this at home, kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":37276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21,79,4093],"class_list":["post-37265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-xbox-360","tag-xbox-360-cocaine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37277,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37265\/revisions\/37277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}