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Action News Jax Ben Becker has learned that four Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department firefighters arrested <\/a>on misdemeanor criminal mischief charges have now been reassigned and demoted following a criminal investigation into paintball guns being fired in Downtown Jacksonville.<\/p>\n The transfers come with a pay reduction and remove the firefighters from the Special Operations Team at Fire Station 4 for a minimum of one year. A fifth firefighter<\/a>, who was not arrested, has been suspended without pay for 72 hours.<\/p>\n Becker first reported in January, the arrests by the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n The Firefighters Arrested<\/p>\n Engineer Landon T. Simmons, 30<\/p>\n Engineer Wesley P. Parker, 32<\/p>\n Engineer Tristen C. Harrison, 25<\/p>\n Firefighter Colby B. Lesage, 23<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n All four face misdemeanor criminal mischief charges in connection to a December incident involving shooting paintball guns at property, civilians, and a JSO cruiser. They have all pleaded not-guilty.<\/p>\n >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/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":"Action News Jax Ben Becker has learned that four Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department firefighters arrested on misdemeanor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,4063,38997,9000,116,118,117,1415,76282,64035,76283],"class_list":{"0":"post-159176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action-news-jax","9":"tag-criminal-investigation","10":"tag-criminal-mischief","11":"tag-downtown-jacksonville","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","14":"tag-jacksonville-news","15":"tag-jacksonville-sheriffs-office","16":"tag-misdemeanor-criminal-mischief-charges","17":"tag-paintball-guns","18":"tag-the-firefighters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159176","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=159176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}