{"id":14903,"date":"2009-06-18T13:41:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T20:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14903"},"modified":"2009-06-18T13:41:10","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T20:41:10","slug":"cycling-mt-bike-ex-mountain-bike-champ-giove-hit-with-drug-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14903","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Mt. Bike &#8211; Ex-mountain bike champ Giove hit with drug charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Former mountain biking world champion Melissa \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Missy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Giove was in custody Thursday on federal drug charges after authorities said they seized more than 200 pounds of marijuana from a truck she was driving in upstate New York.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials said Wednesday that the 37-year-old Giove, of Chesapeake, Va., and 30-year-old Eric Canori of Wilton were charged Tuesday with conspiring to possess and distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Authorities said they seized nearly 400 pounds of pot from the truck and from Canori\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home outside Saratoga Springs, 25 miles north of Albany.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Giove and Canori were in the custody of U.S. Marshals pending detention hearings Thursday afternoon in Albany&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/sc\/news?slug=ap-mountainbiker-potbust&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former mountain biking world champion Melissa \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Missy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Giove was in custody Thursday on federal drug charges after authorities said they seized more than 200 pounds of marijuana from a truck she was driving in upstate New York. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials said Wednesday that the 37-year-old Giove, of Chesapeake, Va., and 30-year-old Eric Canori [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-mt-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14924,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14903\/revisions\/14924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}