{"id":331839,"date":"2026-07-07T14:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331839\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T14:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:15:20","slug":"former-tallahassee-mayor-andrew-gillum-arrested-on-drug-charges-in-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331839\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum arrested on drug charges in Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:USA TODAY;\" href=\"https:\/\/uw-media.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"USA TODAY\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"174\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2021-07\/506fdd20-ee43-11eb-8f33-8a4102cf7edb.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Burlew, Tallahassee Democrat<\/p>\n<p>Tue, July 7, 2026 at 1:48 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"976\" height=\"651\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_usatoday_us_articles_590\/acbddfc6b4f45c9ba50d8b89a367a996.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum arrested on marijuana charges in Alabama<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:Andrew Gillum;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/news\/local\/2026\/05\/22\/andrew-gillum-license-suspended-over-unpaid-school-zone-speeding-fines\/90192428007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Gillum<\/a>, the former Tallahassee mayor who narrowly lost his bid for Florida governor in 2018, was recently arrested in southern Alabama on drug-related charges.<\/p>\n<p>Gillum was arrested by the Daphne Police Department on charges of possession of dangerous drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana, according to Baldwin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office online records.<\/p>\n<p>As first reported by TMZ, Gillum was booked into the Baldwin County Corrections Center after his arrest the evening of July 2 in Daphne. He was released the following day.<\/p>\n<p>Recent headlines: <a data-ylk=\"slk:Andrew Gillum&#039;s driver&#039;s license suspended after school zone speeding fines;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/news\/local\/2026\/05\/22\/andrew-gillum-license-suspended-over-unpaid-school-zone-speeding-fines\/90192428007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Gillum&#8217;s driver&#8217;s license suspended after school zone speeding fines<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check back with Tallahassee.com for more on this breaking story.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Jeff Burlew at jburlew@tallahassee.com or 850-599-2180.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: <a data-ylk=\"slk:Almost Florida governor, Andrew Gillum arrested on drug charges;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/news\/local\/2026\/07\/07\/former-tallahassee-mayor-andrew-gillum-arrested-on-drug-charges-in-alabama\/90832334007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Almost Florida governor, Andrew Gillum arrested on drug charges<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeff Burlew, Tallahassee Democrat Tue, July 7, 2026 at 1:48 PM UTC Former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum arrested&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[59493,136918,136921,136920,136917,8113,3291,136919,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-331839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-andrew-gillum","tag-baldwin-county-corrections-center","tag-baldwin-county-sheriff","tag-dangerous-drugs","tag-daphne-police-department","tag-drug-related","tag-florida-governor","tag-southern-alabama","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331839","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=331839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}