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A Jacksonville woman was arrested early Wednesday morning after police found her asleep in a car parked the wrong way on Pettiford Drive West, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
Officers say they responded around 1:50 a.m. to reports of a suspicious vehicle idling in front of a vacant home.<\/p>\n
When they arrived, they found 37-year-old Valenda Johnson in the driver\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n She was woken by officers and later identified as a convicted felon.<\/p>\n Johnson was charged with grand theft in Polk County in 2021, according to Polk County court documents.<\/p>\n A search of the vehicle led police to seize fentanyl, marijuana, drug paraphernalia, and a loaded handgun.<\/p>\n Johnson was taken into custody and faces several charges, including trafficking fentanyl, possession of a weapon by a felon, and drug possession.<\/p>\n Police say Johnson was also cited for improper parking and having an open container of alcohol in the car.<\/p>\n She was booked into the Duval County jail, and her SUV was towed from the scene.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Jacksonville woman was arrested early Wednesday morning after police found her asleep in a car parked the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28593,116,118,117,1415,62130],"class_list":["post-125350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-convicted-felon","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-sheriffs-office","tag-valenda-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}