{"id":139171,"date":"2026-01-31T23:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T23:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/139171\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T23:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T23:05:09","slug":"motorcycle-gang-member-wanted-on-drug-gun-charges-arrested-in-florida-keys-sheriff-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/139171\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle gang member wanted on drug, gun charges arrested in Florida Keys, sheriff says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0January 31, 2026 at 5:39 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MK6K4YFZ5ZFLTGR6N74NIQNDNE.jpg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/>WPLG WPLG <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MONROE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A 60-year-old Delray Beach man identified as a member of the outlaw Pagan motorcycle gang was arrested Friday on Grassy Key in Marathon after deputies discovered he was wanted on drug and gun charges in another Florida county, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">John Ray Melvin was wanted in Palm Beach County on charges of cocaine possession and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, according to the Monroe County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies attempted to stop a group of motorcyclists near Mile Marker 58 on U.S. 1 around 3:15 p.m., but only one rider pulled over. That individual was cited for driving with a suspended license, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The remaining riders continued to Kyle Avenue, where deputies said they blocked both the roadway and a nearby bicycle path.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe Sheriff\u2019s Office will continue to make gang-related crime a priority and I will not allow such groups to interfere in the lives of peaceful and law-abiding citizens,\u201d wrote MCSO Sheriff Rick Ramsay in a news release on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They said a records check later revealed active warrants for Melvin, who was taken into custody. His motorcycle was towed, and he was booked into jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Melvin\u2019s bond information wasn\u2019t immediately released. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Pablo Hernandez\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/96ffb9dd-5e0a-4be5-8ede-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Pablo Hernandez <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Pablo Hernandez is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born in Cuba and has lived in Miami, Florida since 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0January 31, 2026 at 5:39 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandWPLG WPLG MONROE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A 60-year-old Delray Beach man identified&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[749,5526,28,30,29,5531,5529,5528,5530,5532,5527],"class_list":{"0":"post-139171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breaking-news-video","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-live-speeches","14":"tag-live-updates","15":"tag-live-video","16":"tag-press-conference","17":"tag-real-time-coverage","18":"tag-video-updates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139171","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=139171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}