{"id":170665,"date":"2026-02-26T22:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/170665\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T22:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:43:09","slug":"jacksonville-police-release-details-on-222-pounds-of-meth-seized-a-month-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/170665\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville police release details on 222 pounds of meth seized a month ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Jacksonville police are finally releasing information on a major meth bust that happened a month ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">48-year-old Manuel Aguirre-Ambrocio, of California, was charged with three counts of trafficking methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On January 25, the Jacksonville Police Department, along with SBI and DEA agents, seized 222 pounds of the drug.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Aguirre-Ambrocio is being held in the Onslow County Jail without bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The investigation is ongoing, according to police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Jacksonville police are finally releasing information on a major meth bust that happened a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[81176,4535,8014,5558,116,118,117,15668,81175,15316,77081,7971,4481,1854,81177,81178,42552,4480],"class_list":["post-170665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-222-pounds","tag-california","tag-drug-bust","tag-drugs","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-police-department","tag-manuel-aguirre-ambrocio","tag-meth","tag-meth-bust","tag-methamphetamine","tag-nc","tag-north-carolina","tag-pounds","tag-seize","tag-seized","tag-witn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170665","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=170665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}