{"id":159349,"date":"2026-02-18T04:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T04:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/159349\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T04:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T04:45:07","slug":"nearly-70-pounds-of-marijuana-seized-in-jacksonville-bust-police-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/159349\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 70 pounds of marijuana seized in Jacksonville bust, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office announced the arrest of 25-year-old Benwah Wilson after nearly 70 pounds of marijuana were found in his home on Jacksonville&#8217;s westside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">JSO said officers responded to a report of shots fired on Feb. 11 near Wilcox Street and West 5th Street. Officers saw Wilson&#8217;s home with multiple bullet holes and conducted a protective sweep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Wilson was released on bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office announced the arrest of 25-year-old Benwah Wilson after nearly 70 pounds of marijuana were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[76411,76412,116,118,117,7659],"class_list":["post-159349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-benwah-wilson","tag-bullet-holes","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-marijuana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159349","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=159349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}