{"id":331906,"date":"2026-07-07T15:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331906\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:16:07","slug":"former-nominee-for-florida-governor-arrested-in-daphne-on-drug-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331906\/","title":{"rendered":"Former nominee for Florida governor arrested in Daphne on drug charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAPHNE, Ala. (NBC 15) \u2014 According to Daphne Police, on July 2, 2026, at 10:45 pm, Daphne Patrol Officers conducted a traffic stop on US Hwy 98 near N Main Street for erratic driving. &#8216;<\/p>\n<p>The driver was identified as 46-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/mynbc15.com\/search?find=ANDREW+GILLUM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Andrew Demetric Gillum of Tallahassee, FL. <\/a> Gillum is a former nominee for Florida governor.<\/p>\n<p>One of the officers saw a glass pipe on the center console of the vehicle. This led to a probable cause search of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Several rolled marijuana cigarettes and three packages of a substance that tested positive for methamphetamine were recovered. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Gillum was charged with Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance, a class D felony, and Possession of Marijuana, 2nd Degree, a class A misdemeanor. <\/p>\n<p>He was booked into the Daphne City Jail and later transported to the Baldwin County Correctional Facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAPHNE, Ala. (NBC 15) \u2014 According to Daphne Police, on July 2, 2026, at 10:45 pm, Daphne Patrol&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-331906","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\/331906","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=331906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}