{"id":319140,"date":"2026-06-25T08:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/319140\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T08:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:13:11","slug":"jacksonville-man-sentenced-to-more-than-21-years-in-federal-prison-for-drug-trafficking-action-news-jax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/319140\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville man sentenced to more than 21 years in federal prison for drug trafficking \u2013 Action News Jax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">NASSAU COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A Jacksonville man was sentenced to more than 21 years in federal prison after an investigation by the Nassau County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">According to NCSO, court documents indicated that 47-year-old Charles Curtis Williams sold drugs, including methamphetamine, fentanyl, and crack cocaine, to an undercover detective on different occasions in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Williams was apprehended by law enforcement on his way to another drug transaction. After his arrest, bags of methamphetamine, crack cocaine, and fentanyl were located in his car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">A search warrant was executed at William\u2019s residence by federal agents. A loaded gun with an additional magazine, oxycodone pills, bags of crack cocaine and cocaine, fentanyl packaged for individual sale, and drug trafficking paraphernalia, including a ledger with drug sales information, baggies, a beaker, and scales, were seized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">The sheriff\u2019s office says that due to William\u2019s criminal history, he was sentenced as an armed career criminal under federal law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">NCSO worked with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to investigate the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\">&gt;&gt;&gt; STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE &lt;&lt;&lt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.actionnewsjax.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/video\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n<p>Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASSAU COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A Jacksonville man was sentenced to more than 21 years in federal prison after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6275,9689,4204,32909,3974,8219,265,3977,31391,9695,3980,3981,9696,9697,116,118,117,2785,57561,31394,9698,9699,3985,712,9702,3986,128,9704,9705,3993,9706,4360,39323,4001,9708,1934,32911,9709,9710],"class_list":["post-319140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-attorney","tag-auction","tag-authority","tag-barrister","tag-concept","tag-court","tag-crime","tag-criminal","tag-decisions","tag-gavel","tag-guilt","tag-guilty","tag-hammer","tag-innocence","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-judge","tag-judgement","tag-judges","tag-judgment","tag-judicial","tag-justice","tag-law","tag-lawyer","tag-legal","tag-legislation","tag-mallet","tag-prosecution","tag-punishment","tag-rights","tag-rule","tag-sentence","tag-symbol","tag-system","tag-trial","tag-tribunal","tag-verdict","tag-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319140","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=319140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}