{"id":135547,"date":"2026-10-08T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/10\/08\/drug-ring-suspects-appear-in-federal-court\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-10-08T05:02:06","modified_gmt":"2029-03-26T05:02:06","slug":"drug-ring-suspects-appear-in-federal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/10\/08\/drug-ring-suspects-appear-in-federal-court\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Drug Ring Suspects Appear In Federal Court"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Michigan men and a Montanan made their initial appearance in federal court on Tuesday, Sept. 29, on suspicion  of tra king methamphetamine  onto the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Acting U.S. Attorney Mark Steger Smith said.<br \/>\n\t  Vincent Earl Thompson, 26, from Clayton, Mich., and Derrick Byrd, 38, from Detroit,  Mich., along with Michael  Dean Grey Bear, 24, from Poplar, were arrested in September<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135634,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135547\/revisions\/135634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135547"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=135547"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=135547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}