{"id":216457,"date":"2026-04-02T19:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216457\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T19:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:47:08","slug":"2-men-arrested-after-drug-bust-at-lem-turner-smoke-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216457\/","title":{"rendered":"2 men arrested after drug bust at Lem Turner smoke shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office seized multiple pounds of illegal drugs, five firearms and thousands of dollars in cash following a bust at a smoke shop off Lem Turner Road on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Officers responded to the shop on March 29 after receiving information that a wanted drug trafficker from Gainesville was inside. When they arrived, officers found illegal drugs and guns in plain sight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Among the items seized were approximately 600 grams of meth pills, 500 grams of meth crystals, three grams of cocaine, 10 pounds of marijuana, drug paraphernalia, five firearms and $8,000 in cash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Frank Maddox, 21, was arrested along with Anthony Denson, 33, who faces multiple drug offense charges related to the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWe won\u2019t stand for anyone pushing poison in our community,\u201d SJO said. \u201cOur officers are vigilant against narcotics offenses, and if you\u2019re dealing drugs, we will find and stop you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office seized multiple pounds of illegal drugs, five firearms and thousands of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[265,116,118,117,1872],"class_list":["post-216457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-crime","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216457","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=216457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}