{"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":{"0":"post-170665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-222-pounds","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-drug-bust","11":"tag-drugs","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","14":"tag-jacksonville-news","15":"tag-jacksonville-police-department","16":"tag-manuel-aguirre-ambrocio","17":"tag-meth","18":"tag-meth-bust","19":"tag-methamphetamine","20":"tag-nc","21":"tag-north-carolina","22":"tag-pounds","23":"tag-seize","24":"tag-seized","25":"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}]}}