{"id":137609,"date":"2026-01-30T13:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/137609\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T13:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:14:12","slug":"jacksonville-man-faces-multiple-felony-drug-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/137609\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville man faces multiple felony drug charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ONSLOW COUNTY, NC \u2014 Jacksonville police arrested 26-year-old Ricky Lee Gaskins on January 29.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Gaskins is facing several felony charges, including possession of cocaine and methamphetamine and maintaining a home or vehicle used for controlled substances. Investigators also charged him with drug offenses within 1,000 feet of a school and a park, along with possession of drug and marijuana paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p>According to court records, the alleged offenses happened on November 6, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Arrest warrants allege Gaskins kept and maintained a residence on Coleman Drive where cocaine and methamphetamine were used and stored. Police say the home was located near a child daycare center, near the Sandry Run area. Records say officials recovered about 15 grams of methamphetamine and cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>Gaskins is currently being held at the Onslow County Detention Center under a $70,000 secured bond. He is scheduled to appear in court on Friday, January 30, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ONSLOW COUNTY, NC \u2014 Jacksonville police arrested 26-year-old Ricky Lee Gaskins on January 29. Police say Gaskins is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-137609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137609","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=137609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}