{"id":287182,"date":"2026-05-28T05:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/287182\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T05:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:59:09","slug":"jacksonville-man-accused-of-trafficking-fentanyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/287182\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville man accused of trafficking fentanyl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Onslow County \u2014 A Jacksonville man is behind bars after police say he was caught with a large amount of fentanyl and a concealed firearm.<\/p>\n<p>According to court records, 28-year-old Robert Banks was arrested Monday, May 26, by the Jacksonville Police Department. He\u2019s now facing two felony counts of trafficking fentanyl, along with a charge of carrying a concealed gun.<\/p>\n<p>Records state Banks allegedly possessed 28 grams or more of fentanyl. Authorities also say he was carrying a black Glock 43 handgun equipped with an Aimpoint optic and Streamlight tactical illuminator while off his own property.<\/p>\n<p>Banks was taken to the Onslow County Jail, where he is being held without bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Onslow County \u2014 A Jacksonville man is behind bars after police say he was caught with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-287182","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\/287182","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=287182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}