{"id":278644,"date":"2026-05-20T21:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278644\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T21:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:45:12","slug":"man-arrested-at-jacksonville-city-council-meeting-found-guilty-of-battery-on-an-officer-resisting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278644\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested at Jacksonville City Council meeting found guilty of battery on an officer, resisting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conor Cauley was found guilty of the charges on Wednesday. He was one of three people arrested during the heated meeting in May, 2025. <\/p>\n

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Jacksonville man was found guilty by a jury Wednesday of resisting and committing battery against an officer during a 2025 Jacksonville City Council meeting.<\/a><\/p>\n

On May 27, 2025, in response to behavior in the crowd, City Council leadership ordered the removal of anyone who caused further disruptions. After another alleged violation of chamber rules, co-defendant Leah Grady was told to leave and arrested after refusing, according to the State Attorney’s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“During this interaction, Cauley stood up, began recording, and blocked the area where officers instructed Grady to leave. The officer put his arm up to separate Cauley from Grady and attempted to direct Cauley to back up. Cauley pushed the officer\u2019s arm away, resulting in the officer physically removing Cauley from the area and placing him under arrest,” State Attorney Melissa Nelson wrote in a release following the verdict.<\/p>\n

Video below shows a confrontation between Cauley and an officer.<\/p>\n


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Three people were arrested that day, but the third suspect, Teagan “Dragon” Belloit, had their charge of resisting an officer dropped earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Grady was found guilty of two misdemeanor charges related to resisting an officer. Cauley could face up to five years in prison at his sentencing.<\/p>\n

Both are due back in court on May 26 ahead of their sentencing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conor Cauley was found guilty of the charges on Wednesday. He was one of three people arrested during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-278644","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\/278644","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=278644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}