{"id":7550,"date":"2026-11-03T11:48:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T11:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/call-us-to-complain-us-police-urge-cheated-cocaine-buyers\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T11:48:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T11:48:44","slug":"call-us-to-complain-us-police-urge-cheated-cocaine-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/call-us-to-complain-us-police-urge-cheated-cocaine-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Call us to complain,\u2019 US police urge cheated cocaine buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"57.002237136465\">\n<p>The Greensboro Police Department in North Carolina has sparked widespread reaction online after telling people who believe their cocaine dealer shortchanged them to contact the police and file an official complaint.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on its official X account, @GSO_Police, the department wrote, \u201cIf your cocaine dealer shorted you and didn\u2019t supply you with the full amount of product, contact us at 336-373-2222 to file an official complaint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post, published on Monday evening local time, had garnered more than eight million views by Tuesday morning, according to Arabic outlet Arabi21.<\/p>\n<p>The Greensboro Police Department has built a reputation for using satire and humour on social media to engage the public while passing across serious messages about crime and public safety.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the department posted: \u201cIf your meth dealer has all their teeth, it\u2019s the police. Also, do not do meth or any illegal drugs. #DontCrime\u201d .<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In March, it joked about St. Patrick\u2019s Day: \u201cIf your crack cocaine is green today, it\u2019s the pollen. More importantly, please let us know if you have cocaine so we can visit you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#0d79656868696479627f4d7d78636e65636a236e6260\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"f4809c9191909d809b86b484819a979c9a93da979b99\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greensboro Police Department in North Carolina has sparked widespread reaction online after telling people who believe their cocaine dealer shortchanged them to contact the police and file an official&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}