{"id":292726,"date":"2026-06-02T04:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/292726\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T04:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:46:18","slug":"jacksonville-nurse-practitioner-pleads-guilty-to-drug-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/292726\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville nurse practitioner pleads guilty to drug charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Jacksonville woman is facing up to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to unlawful distribution of controlled substances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Court documents say 45-year-old Kenyatta Dacres, a nurse practitioner, prescribed controlled substances to an undercover DEA agent on three separate occasions. According to documents, Dacres prescribed Lortab pills, which contain hydrocodone, without the agent saying he was in any pain. The documents add that Dacres also prescribed Adderall to the agent despite any history or diagnoses that support its use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No sentencing date has been set.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u25b6 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wokv.com\/on-demand\/morning-news-podcast\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Listen to Jacksonville\u2019s Morning News Interviews;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Listen to Jacksonville\u2019s Morning News Interviews&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Listen to Jacksonville\u2019s Morning News Interviews<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wokv.com\/news\/local\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Read more local news from WOKV;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Read more local news from WOKV&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Read more local news from WOKV<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wokv.com\/fp\/download-free-wokv-app\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Click here;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.wokv.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:click here;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Jacksonville woman is facing up to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to unlawful distribution&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11329,40617,32137,116,118,117,123279,123278,30741,123570,123569],"class_list":["post-292726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-controlled-substances","tag-court-documents","tag-federal-prison","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-kenyatta-dacres","tag-nurse-practitioner","tag-pleading-guilty","tag-undercover-dea-agent","tag-unlawful-distribution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292726","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=292726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}