{"id":224114,"date":"2026-04-08T23:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224114\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T23:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:42:17","slug":"jacksonville-sheriff-makes-arrest-at-hardware-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224114\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville sheriff makes arrest at hardware store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters was the arresting officer Wednesday afternoon after a suspected shoplifter was reported at a local home improvement store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JSOPIO\/status\/2042002403638030785?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:video posted to social media;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;video posted to social media&quot;}\" class=\"link \">video posted to social media<\/a>, Sheriff Waters said he was picking up a table at a Home Depot on Atlantic Boulevard near Girvin Road when the incident unfolded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While speaking with retired Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office Robbery Detective Clem Nieto inside the store, someone approached them and reported a theft in progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Waters and Nieto went outside where they found the suspect speaking with an associate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When they reached out to grab the suspect, he pulled away and started running. Waters and Nieto followed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Nieto tripped and fell and Waters continued in the pursuit, according to the sheriff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The chase continued through the parking lot into a grassy area where Waters was able to get him to the ground and get leverage while the suspect struggled to get away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Waters was able to get the suspect into handcuffs and proceeded to take him into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect is accused of attempting to leave the store with roughly $500 in merchandise. He has been charged with theft and resisting. He also had two active warrants for theft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">JSO said the sheriff was unharmed during the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cJust because I was elected sheriff doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m no longer a policeman,\u201d Sheriff Waters said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters was the arresting officer Wednesday afternoon after a suspected shoplifter was reported at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[101360,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-224114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-clem-nieto","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224114","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=224114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}