{"id":276882,"date":"2026-05-19T17:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276882\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T17:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:24:25","slug":"jacksonville-man-jailed-in-onslow-on-fraud-charges-faces-extradition-to-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276882\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville man jailed in Onslow on fraud charges, faces extradition to Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Jacksonville man is facing multiple charges in Onslow County and extradition to Georgia after warrants allege he accepted payments for trailers and services that were never provided.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Martin Walton, 53, was arrested on May 18 by the Onslow County Sheriff\u2019s Office. According to warrants, Walton is charged with extradition\/fugitive from another state, obtaining property by false pretenses, failing to work after being paid, and felony conversion.<\/p>\n<p>A magistrate\u2019s order dated May 5 lists a theft by deception case out of Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Warrants allege Walton accepted $19,819 from a victim on April 11, 2025, in exchange for goods that were never provided. Warrants also allege Walton accepted $8,965 from Christopher Lowery on June 6, 2025, as payment for a personalized trailer he did not build. <\/p>\n<p>In another case, warrants allege Walton accepted $9,634 on Aug. 1, 2024, as payment for services related to building a personalized trailer, but the trailer was never built, and Walton avoided communication or explanation. Warrants also allege that on Sept. 4, 2025, Walton sold a trailer owned by another victim and did not provide the proceeds from the sale to the owner.<\/p>\n<p>Walton is being held in the Onslow County Jail without bond. A court appearance is scheduled for May 19 in Onslow County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Jacksonville man is facing multiple charges in Onslow County and extradition to Georgia after warrants allege he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-276882","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\/276882","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=276882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}