{"id":297205,"date":"2026-06-05T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297205\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:00:08","slug":"man-charged-with-assaulting-two-jacksonville-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297205\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with assaulting two Jacksonville officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Onslow County \u2014 A Jacksonville man is facing multiple charges after warrants state he assaulted two Jacksonville Police Department officers who were responding to a domestic disturbance.<\/p>\n<p>According to arrest records, 36-year-old Jovon Len Council was arrested by the Jacksonville Police Department on June 5 and charged with two counts of assault on a government official, two counts of communicating threats and two counts of resisting a public officer.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the incident happened while officers were attempting to investigate a domestic disturbance.<\/p>\n<p>According to charging documents, Council allegedly kicked an officer in the face, groin and chest while the officer was performing his duties. He is also accused of headbutting a separate officer in the head during the same incident.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities further allege that Council threatened both officers. Arrest records state he told both officers that he would &#8220;beat&#8221; them.<\/p>\n<p>Council was taken to the Onslow County Detention Center, where he is being held without bond.<\/p>\n<p>Court records show his first appearance is scheduled for June 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Onslow County \u2014 A Jacksonville man is facing multiple charges after warrants state he assaulted two Jacksonville&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-297205","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\/297205","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=297205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}