{"id":318911,"date":"2026-06-25T02:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/318911\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T02:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:27:09","slug":"florida-man-arrested-near-washington-state-prison-after-alleged-contraband-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/318911\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man arrested near Washington State Prison after alleged contraband drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW\/WAGT) &#8211; A Florida man was arrested after authorities said he attempted to deliver contraband near Washington State Prison before fleeing from law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Washington County Sheriff\u2019s Office, deputies responded around 5:35 a.m. on June 22 to a report of a suspicious vehicle parked near the perimeter of the prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When officers approached, the suspect allegedly fled on foot and was later located near Burden Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Following the arrest, K-9 Rebel helped locate contraband that authorities said had been discarded during the chase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The suspect, a resident of Jacksonville, Florida, faces multiple charges, including two counts of possession of a firearm or knife during the commission of a crime, four counts of items prohibited to inmates, trading with inmates, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and two counts of obstruction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Authorities said the suspect\u2019s vehicle was impounded and transported to the Washington County Law Enforcement Center as part of the ongoing investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WRDW\/WAGT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW\/WAGT) &#8211; A Florida man was arrested after authorities said he attempted to deliver contraband near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-318911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318911","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=318911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}