{"id":138702,"date":"2026-01-31T12:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T12:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/138702\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T12:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T12:17:07","slug":"navy-commander-arrested-at-naval-station-mayport-for-child-sex-crimes-sjso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/138702\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy Commander arrested at Naval Station Mayport for child sex crimes: SJSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Johns County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says that its investigation into the commander dates back to July 2025.<\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A navy commander was arrested on Friday for alleged child sex crimes, the St. Johns County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says.<\/p>\n<p>SJSO says that their investigation into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usna.edu\/Sailing\/staff.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Navy Commander and Deputy Director of Naval Academy Sailing<\/a> Jonathan Saburn, 44, began in July 2025. Officers say that a victim had reported &#8220;delayed incidents of abuse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/17eiPAB8Gp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">According to SJSO<\/a>, Saburn &#8220;engaged in inappropriate behavior and touching on several occasions when the victim was young, in both St. Johns and Duval counties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Saburn was arrested on Friday while on duty at Naval Station Mayport, where he is held at the Duval County jail on no bond.<\/p>\n<p>He is charged with lewd or lascivious molestation, lewd or lascivious exhibition and child abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Johns County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says that its investigation into the commander dates back to July 2025.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-138702","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\/138702","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=138702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}