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 Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n They say his car ended up in a ditch after he turned in front of a truck.<\/p>\n The other vehicle was driven by a 17-year-old with a 16-year-old passenger. One suffered minor injuries but declined to go to the hospital.<\/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. The report says his eyes were bloodshot and glassy. 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 Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Jacksonville city leader is now on administrative leave after being arrested for driving under the influence. Action…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1913,344,33581,25320,69292,69293,116,118,117,1415,600],"class_list":["post-142891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news","tag-action-news-jax","tag-administrative-leave","tag-ben-becker","tag-daryl-joseph","tag-department-of-parks","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-sheriffs-office","tag-recreation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142891","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=142891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}