{"id":259306,"date":"2026-05-05T15:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259306\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:17:13","slug":"retired-drug-dog-sniffs-out-washed-up-marijuana-bale-at-florida-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259306\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired drug dog sniffs out washed-up marijuana bale at Florida beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 It wasn\u2019t the kind of fetch anyone expects at the beach.<\/p>\n

On April 13, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office <\/a>said a man was walking his dog through Hanna Park when the pair came face-to-face with a tightly wrapped bale of marijuana <\/a>that had washed ashore after high tide, and the dog – fittingly – was a retired narcotics canine.<\/p>\n

The man quickly called the sheriff’s office, and officers responded to the park, confirmed the suspicious find, and collected what they jokingly called a “square grouper,” a term used for drug packages that end up drifting onto Florida\u2019s coastline.<\/p>\n

Bodycam footage<\/a> shows officers arriving at the scene. <\/p>\n

“I thought it was a Portuguese Man O’War <\/a>because that plastic part was sticking up,” the witness told officers.<\/p>\n

A man walking his retired narcotics dog at Hanna Park on April 13 made an unexpected call to police after the pair discovered a bale of marijuana washed ashore following high tide, which Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office officers quickly collected and secured as evidence. (JSO) <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The bale was secured and transported to JSO\u2019s property and evidence vault. No arrests were reported, and investigators have not said where the marijuana originated.<\/p>\n

JSO officials say the unusual discovery is a reminder that no two calls for service are ever the same \u2014 and that sometimes, even retired K-9s still have a nose for the job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 It wasn\u2019t the kind of fetch anyone expects at the beach. On April 13,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-259306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259306","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=259306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}