JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Jacksonville city leader is now on administrative leave after being arrested for driving under the influence.<\/p>\n
Action News Jax\u2019s Ben Becker obtained court documents showing Daryl Joseph, the director of the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Community Services<\/a> was arrested Saturday on the Northside.<\/p>\n >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office said Joseph was involved in a crash around 11 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of New Berlin and Cedar Point roads.<\/p>\n They say his car ended up in a ditch after he turned in front of a truck.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n Police say they arrested Joseph after smelling alcohol while talking to him. He faces multiple charges, according to his arrest report.<\/p>\n The City told Action News Jax that Joseph will be on administrative leave through the remainder of the week while they conduct an internal review.<\/p>\n We are still working to obtain Joseph\u2019s mugshot from JSO.<\/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 Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Jacksonville city leader is now on administrative leave after being arrested for driving under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69226,5228,69228,69227,69225,116,118,117,69230,1872,634,27696,69229],"class_list":{"0":"post-142725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-_rec_and_community_services","9":"tag-action_news_jacks","10":"tag-cedar","11":"tag-darryl_joseph","12":"tag-department_of_parks","13":"tag-jacksonville","14":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","15":"tag-jacksonville-news","16":"tag-joseph","17":"tag-jso","18":"tag-local","19":"tag-new_berlin","20":"tag-point_roads"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142725","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=142725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}