{"id":170995,"date":"2026-02-27T03:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/170995\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T03:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:50:17","slug":"investigation-ongoing-after-222-pounds-of-meth-seized-in-jacksonville-joint-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/170995\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation ongoing after 222 pounds of meth seized in Jacksonville joint probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 200 pounds of methamphetamine were seized during a joint investigation involving local and federal agencies, according to the Jacksonville Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Feb. 25, members of the department\u2019s Special Investigations Unit worked alongside the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration to seize 222 pounds of methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Investigation ongoing after 222 pounds of meth seized in Jacksonville joint probe\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/071fa2f7-d686-449c-84f5-07bbed1d7030-JPDseizure.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Investigation ongoing after 222 pounds of meth seized in Jacksonville joint probe<\/p>\n<p>As part of the investigation, detectives arrested 48-year-old Manuel Aguirre-Ambrocio of Perris, California. He has been charged with three counts of trafficking methamphetamine and is being held without bond in the Onslow County Jail.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Police said the investigation remains active and additional information may be released as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 200 pounds of methamphetamine were seized during a joint investigation involving local and federal agencies, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-170995","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\/170995","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=170995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}