{"id":304369,"date":"2026-06-11T21:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/304369\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T21:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:35:10","slug":"jacksonville-names-interim-chief-following-resignation-of-current-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/304369\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville names interim chief following resignation of current chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; The City of Jacksonville has named its interim chief after its current chief resigned to take a job in Florida. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">City Manager Joshua Ray appointed Deputy Police Chief Ashley Weaver to the interim chief role, effective June 26th. It comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/06\/08\/jacksonville-police-chief-heading-florida-new-job\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/06\/08\/jacksonville-police-chief-heading-florida-new-job\/\">WITN reported<\/a> on Tuesday that Chief Jarad Phelps accepted an offer to become the chief in Boca Raton, Florida. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jacksonville says that Phelps has submitted his resignation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The city says Weaver started her career in Jacksonville in 1998 and has been a sergeant, lieutenant, and captain before her promotion to deputy police chief in 2018. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Weaver has a Master\u2019s Degree in Public Safety Leadership, is a graduate of the FBI National Academy, and currently serves as a board member for the North Carolina Regional Organized Crime Information Center, the city says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cDeputy Chief Weaver has proven to be a strong leader throughout her career with the City of Jacksonville,\u201d said City Manager Josh Ray in a press release. \u201cWe are excited for her to lead us through this time of transition and to continue the work that she and Chief Phelps started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In its release, the city thanked Phelps for his dedication and leadership over the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story. JACKSONVILLE, N.C.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-304369","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\/304369","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=304369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}