JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Dipakkumar Ghelani, of India, is in the Duval County Jail charged with trafficking cannabis.<\/p>\n
Ghelani, 34, was arrested by the Florida Highway Patrol on April 16.<\/p>\n
According to a news release from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Ghelani was trafficking drugs with an estimated street value of $13 million.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cGhelani\u2019s arrest shows how valuable our 287(g) partnerships<\/a> are,\u201d said ICE Director Todd M. Lyons. \u201cThe Florida Highway Patrol has consistently proven to be a reliable partner in supporting ICE\u2019s efforts to arrest potentially dangerous criminal illegal aliens like Ghelani, who\u2019s been convicted of providing alcohol to a child and arrested for felony possession of money from selling drugs, being a fugitive from justice, and drug trafficking.\u201d <\/p>\n ICE reports that Ghelani was in the U.S. illegally. His visa expired in May 2019. <\/p>\n He is due in court in Jacksonville on May 7. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges. ICE says he will face immigration proceedings.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Dipakkumar Ghelani, of India, is in the Duval County Jail charged with trafficking cannabis. Ghelani,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,347,108246,28,618,348,1877,108267,116,351,118,117,349,350,3806,346,345],"class_list":["post-246429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-cbs47","tag-dipakkumar-ghelani","tag-florida","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-fox30","tag-ice","tag-ice-arrest-in-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-northeast-florida","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246429","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=246429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}