{"id":155478,"date":"2026-03-06T17:41:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155478\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T17:41:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:41:31","slug":"manhattan-man-arrested-on-drug-distribution-weapons-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155478\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan man arrested on drug distribution, weapons charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"66\" data-end=\"189\">A Manhattan man was arrested early Thursday morning following a drug investigation, according to the Riley County Police Department.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"191\" data-end=\"518\">Officers filed a report at approximately 2:01 a.m. in the 800 block of Temple Lane for distribution of a certain stimulant in an amount of at least 3.5 grams but less than 100 grams, distribution of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a substance listed under KSA 65-4105(h), and criminal use of weapons.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"520\" data-end=\"847\">Stephen Blair, 22, of Manhattan, was arrested at approximately 3:12 a.m. on charges of distribution of a certain stimulant in an amount of at least 3.5 grams but less than 100 grams, distribution of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a substance listed under KSA 65-4105(h), and criminal use of weapons.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"849\" data-end=\"963\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Blair was issued a total bond of $25,000 and remains confined in the Riley County Jail at the time of this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Manhattan man was arrested early Thursday morning following a drug investigation, according to the Riley County Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-155478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155478","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=155478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}