{"id":216366,"date":"2026-04-02T18:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216366\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:13:15","slug":"two-men-arrested-in-string-of-armed-robberies-across-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216366\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men arrested in string of armed robberies across Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two men are behind bars after being arrested in connection to a string of &#8220;violent&#8221; armed robberies across Jacksonville in June 2025, the Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Richard King, 25, and James Weaver, 38, each face multiple charges related to the five robberies, which reportedly took place over the course of 10 days in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to JSO, King and Weaver waited for cashiers to be alone before holding them at gunpoint, stealing cash and pepper-spraying them before leaving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s one thing to demand to have somebody at gunpoint, for them to be cooperative, and then you also pepper spray them afterwards, it&#8217;s just kind of heinous,&#8221; JSO Sgt. Christopher Smith said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">King and Weaver each face five armed robbery charges, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Detective Raquel Anderson with our Robbery and Violent Crimes Unit led the investigation, working tirelessly to stop the brazen attacks,&#8221; JSO said in a release. &#8220;She reviewed hours of store surveillance video, tracked leads, and partnered with our Real Time Crime Center to identify a key piece of evidence. We recognized Detective Anderson&#8217;s efforts by naming her one of our Detectives of the Month. Her efforts go beyond just this case, as she works to make Duval safer every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men are behind bars after being arrested in connection to a string of &#8220;violent&#8221; armed robberies across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[65389,98580,116,118,117,98579,1872,98581],"class_list":["post-216366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-armed-robberies","tag-christopher-smith","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-james-weaver","tag-jso","tag-richard-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216366","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=216366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}