{"id":240815,"date":"2026-04-21T20:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240815\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:09:08","slug":"bessemer-man-arrested-in-jacksonville-grocery-store-burglary-chase-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240815\/","title":{"rendered":"Bessemer man arrested in Jacksonville grocery store burglary, chase case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An arrest has been made in connection with a burglary at Edwards Grocery and a resulting high-speed chase<a href=\"https:\/\/abc3340.com\/news\/local\/manhunt-underway-after-chase-ends-in-crash-along-i-20-in-moody\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> in Jacksonville last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville officers, with assistance from the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force, arrested Marcus Dewayne Evans, 24, of Bessemer, according to Jacksonville Police Chief Marcus Wood. <\/p>\n<p>Evans is charged with third-degree burglary and fleeing or attempting to elude.<\/p>\n<p>Evans was apprehended Monday, April 20. Police said he is the first of three suspects in a burglary and high-speed chase that happened during an early morning in late March at Edwards Grocery on Alabama 204.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe this is the first arrest of three,\u201d Wood said. \u201cInvestigators are still scouring over evidence. We will not rest until all three individuals have been arrested.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wood thanked the marshals service, the FBI, the East Metro Area Crime Center and the Center for Applied Forensics at Jacksonville State University for their assistance with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information can anonymously contact Central Alabama CrimeStoppers at 334-215-7867 or submit an anonymous tip at 215stop.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An arrest has been made in connection with a burglary at Edwards Grocery and a resulting high-speed chase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-240815","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\/240815","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=240815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}