{"id":416985,"date":"2026-07-29T20:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/416985\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T20:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:14:08","slug":"california-semi-truck-driver-arrested-in-escambia-county-on-cocaine-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/416985\/","title":{"rendered":"California semi-truck driver arrested in Escambia County on cocaine charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. &#8212; A semi-truck driver was arrested Sunday on cocaine charges in Escambia County following an inspection by the Florida Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Mukesh Mani, 30, of California, is charged with felony cocaine possession. He was released from jail on $2,500 bond.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mani was the driver of a semi-truck and trailer displaying a handwritten tag with no state designation,&#8221; OALE says in a release. &#8220;The trailer\u2019s registration had expired in 2021. Officers identified Mani through his California driver\u2019s license.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say narcotics detection K9 Mojo gave a positive alert, prompting a probable cause search of the cab. During the search, officers located a tube containing a white powdery substance, which tested positive for cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>Mani was released from jail Sunday on $2,500 bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. &#8212; A semi-truck driver was arrested Sunday on cocaine charges in Escambia County following an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-416985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}