{"id":214289,"date":"2026-04-29T17:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214289\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T17:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:24:17","slug":"riley-county-police-arrest-three-people-in-connection-with-drug-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214289\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley County police arrest three people in connection with drug crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; Three people were arrested in connection with drug crime Tuesday after Riley County police officers conducted a traffic stop on the southwest side of Manhattan, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The traffic stop took place around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday near Irene Circle and Davis Drive, where two men and a woman were arrested and subsequently booked into the Riley County Jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said the traffic stop was conducted in connection with an ongoing investigation into drug distribution in Riley County<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Three people were arrested in connection with drug crime Tuesday in Manhattan, officials said.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777483457_147_USU6LMJSURIUJHWNFMYQOE27AE.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"550\" \/>Three people were arrested in connection with drug crime Tuesday in Manhattan, officials said.(WIBW)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Following the traffic stop, a search warrant was executed in the 800 block of Colorado Street in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The three people who were arrested and booked into the Riley County Jail were identified as:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u2022 Brittanie Michele Vaughn, 31, of Manhattan, who was booked into jail in connection with distribution of opiate-opium-narcotic-certain stimulant; and possession of drug paraphernalia. Vaughn was issued a total bond of $41,000 and remained in the Riley County Jail on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"> \u2022 JC Hunt, 53, of Grandview Plaza, who was booked into jail in connection with distribution of opiate-opium-narcotic-certain stimulant; possession of opiate-opium-narcotic-certain stimulant; and possession of marijuana. Hunt was issued a total bond of $30,000 and remained Wednesday in the Riley County Jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u2022 Jimmie Dale Dodson III, 25, of Manhattan, who was booked into jail in connection with possession of opiate-opium-narcotic-certain stimulant; and possession of drug paraphernalia. Dodson was released from jail after posting a $4,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; Three people were arrested in connection with drug crime Tuesday after Riley County police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[101,13682,3130,75,84,83,9,24,63,800],"class_list":["post-214289","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214289","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=214289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}