{"id":291187,"date":"2026-07-09T10:07:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291187\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T10:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:07:21","slug":"state-police-arrest-brooklyn-man-for-possessing-1-5-kilos-of-narcotics-during-a-malta-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291187\/","title":{"rendered":"State Police arrest Brooklyn man for possessing 1.5 kilos of narcotics during a Malta traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 5, 2026, State Police of Clifton Park arrested\u00a0Lionel J. Manigault, 41, of Brooklyn, NY, for:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance 1st, a class \u201cA\u201d felony\u00a0Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance 3rd, a class \u201cB\u201d felonyVehicle and traffic law violations<\/p>\n<p>On July 5, 2026, at about 9:29 p.m., troopers stopped a vehicle being driven by\u00a0Manigault\u00a0northbound on Interstate 87 in Malta, NY, for a vehicle and traffic law violation. The investigation discovered and seized more than 3 pounds of a controlled substance that later field-tested positive for containing cocaine, along with a large amount of U.S. currency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Manigault\u00a0was arrested at the scene and transported to SP Clifton Park for processing. He was then arraigned at the Malta Town Court, where he was remanded to the Saratoga County Correctional Facility without bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On July 5, 2026, State Police of Clifton Park arrested\u00a0Lionel J. Manigault, 41, of Brooklyn, NY, for:\u00a0 Criminal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-291187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291187","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=291187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}