{"id":155440,"date":"2026-03-06T17:09:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155440\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T17:09:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:09:34","slug":"man-arrested-on-drug-weapons-counts-thursday-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155440\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested on drug, weapons counts Thursday in Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A man was being held in the Riley County Jail following his Thursday arrest in connection with drug and weapons crimes, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The arrested man was identified as Stephen Blair, 22, of Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to Riley County Police officials, Blair was arrested around 3:12 a.m. Thursday in the 800 block of Temple Lane, on the south edge of Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Following his arrest, Blair was booked into the Riley County Jail in connection with distribution of certain stimulant; distribution of marijuana; possession of drug paraphernalia; possession of substance; and criminal use of weapons.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"A man was being held in the Riley County Jail following his arrest early Thursday in Manhattan...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/QMRODRTYBJOTZDAMAFFT62ZOWA.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"650\" \/>A man was being held in the Riley County Jail following his arrest early Thursday in Manhattan in connection with drug and weapons crimes, officials said.(WIBW)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Blair was issued a total bond of $25,000 and remained Friday in the Riley County Jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A man was being held in the Riley County Jail following his Thursday arrest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[101,13682,3130,75,84,83,9,24,63,800,34461],"class_list":["post-155440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-arrest","tag-drug","tag-jail","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-riley-county-police","tag-weapon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}