The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has arrested 25-year-old Benwah Wilson after over 68 pounds of marijuana were discovered in his home.<\/p>\n
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of 25-year-old Benwah Wilson after nearly 70 pounds of marijuana were found in his home on Jacksonville’s westside.\u00a0<\/p>\n
JSO said officers responded to a report of shots fired on Feb. 11 near Wilcox Street and West 5th Street. Officers saw Wilson’s home with multiple bullet holes and conducted a protective sweep.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While in the home, officers say they found 68 pounds of marijuana in plain view along with multiple bullet holes through the interior walls.<\/p>\n
JSO said Narcotics Unit detectives completed a search warrant and found two firearms (a Glock and a rifle) and more than $2,000 in cash.<\/p>\n
Wilson is facing multiple charges, including trafficking in marijuana, possession of felony paraphernalia, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and knowingly renting a structure for the sale of narcotics. Police said all of the charges are felonies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wilson was released on bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has arrested 25-year-old Benwah Wilson after over 68 pounds of marijuana were discovered in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-159301","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\/159301","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=159301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}