Articles Posted in Drug Crimes in Jacksonville

A corrections officer in Duval County has been arrested on three felony charges. According to an article on News4Jax, the officer was arrested this past Sunday for Delivering or Distributing Methamphetamine, Delivering or Distributing Marijuana and Bringing Contraband into a County Detention Facility. All three charges are felonies in Florida. The meth charge is classified…

Sixty people have been arrested in Duval County as a result of four month drug sting operation. According to an article in the Florida Times Union, there are eleven others that have pending arrest warrants in Jacksonville. Because of citizen complaints in the area, “Lockdown in O-Town” is a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office drug operation that…

Nassau County Sheriff’s Office recently launched a campaign to bust people for selling and possessing drugs in Fernandina Beach, Yulee and Hilliard. According to a report in The Florida Times Union, “Operation Liquidation” has been ongoing for several months as an undercover buy/bust operation. The people busted were arrested for a myriad of drug charges…

Jacksonville police have arrested a former NFL player from Jacksonville on a marijuana drug charge and on a warrant for violation of injunction. Jabar Gaffney, according to an article in the Florida Times Union, was arrested for possession of less than twenty grams of marijuana after police claim he was smoking in a parking lot.…

Misty Croslin, the babysitter on watch when Haleigh Cummings went missing, is trying to get a different sentence, according to an article in The Florida Times Union. Misty was arrested on drug charges in St. Johns and Putnam counties, unrelated to the missing child. Croslin entered a plea to the court to trafficking charges and…

The use of the drug heroin is up in Duval, Clay and Nassau Counties, according to an article in the Washington Times. There are new statistics showing the increase. Heroin related overdoses have doubled from 2014 to 2015 and arrests where heroin is involved have increased recently. Law enforcement attributes the uptick in heroin use…

While investigating a misdemeanor theft case at a Clay County motel, police ended up finding an active methamphetamine lab. That will mean serious felony charges for the two men involved, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. When police stopped the first man on the theft charge, they say they found methamphetamines on him,…

A Jacksonville man was arrested on drug charges after police say detectives bought drugs from him twice and police found more drugs when they came to arrest him. The 36-year-old man is facing several felony drug charges after being arrested this month, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. Police bought marijuana in December…

A Clay County fire/rescue officer has been arrested in Clay County on allegations he sold heroin. According to a report in the Florida Times Union, the officer sold the drug to an undercover detective at a meeting site in Clay County. The officer allegedly sold the detective the heroin for $40.00. The incident was videotaped…

Once facing multiple felonies and decades behind bars in a St. Johns County Drug Case, a couple accused of growing massive amounts of marijuana in their home agreed to a deal that puts them on probation but keeps them out of prison. Police initially charged the couple with trafficking in marijuana and several other felonies,…