{"id":163471,"date":"2026-02-21T03:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/163471\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T03:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:49:12","slug":"orlando-police-seized-drugs-and-guns-144-arrested-in-one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/163471\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Police Seized Drugs and Guns, 144 Arrested in One Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orlando police officers seized drugs and guns as 144 people were arrested in just one week.<\/p>\n<p>The Orlando Police Department announced that while working on the beat, OPD officers removed illegal drugs and 15 crime guns from local streets last week.<\/p>\n<p>OPD shared some of the firearms that were seized:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/OPDcrimeguns021926.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-240248 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/OPDcrimeguns021926.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"912\" height=\"600\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the drug and gun seizures, police officers made 144 arrests as part of these enforcement efforts, according to OPD.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement has been busy in the Central Florida tourist city continuing to work hard to keep local streets safe.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, there were <a href=\"https:\/\/westorlandonews.com\/opd-seized-guns-and-drugs-made-136-arrests-in-one-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reports that Orlando police<\/a> had recently made 136 arrests in one week and seized 14 crime guns, while the previous week OPD seized 24 crime guns and made 135 arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando police officers seized drugs and guns as 144 people were arrested in just one week. The Orlando&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[286,4864,147,265,5558,5557,21972,1049,139,141,140,8416,132,42552],"class_list":{"0":"post-163471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-arrested","9":"tag-arrests","10":"tag-central-florida","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-drugs","13":"tag-guns","14":"tag-officers","15":"tag-opd","16":"tag-orlando","17":"tag-orlando-headlines","18":"tag-orlando-news","19":"tag-orlando-police-department","20":"tag-police","21":"tag-seized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163471","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=163471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}