{"id":332001,"date":"2026-07-07T16:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T16:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/332001\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T16:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T16:46:13","slug":"andrew-gillum-who-narrowly-lost-2018-race-for-florida-governor-is-arrested-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/332001\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Gillum, who narrowly lost 2018 race for Florida governor, is arrested | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"andrew gillum\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full white\" width=\"472\" height=\"423\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Gillum, the former Tallahassee mayor who narrowly lost Florida\u2019s 2018 governor\u2019s race to Ron DeSantis, was arrested last week in Daphne, Alabama on drug-related charges.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former\u00a0Tallahassee\u00a0Mayor\u00a0Andrew Gillum, who ran for\u00a0Florida\u00a0governor against\u00a0Ron DeSantis\u00a0in 2018, was arrested last week in\u00a0Alabama\u00a0on drug charges, according to jail records.<\/p>\n<p>Police in the town of\u00a0Daphne\u00a0arrested Gillum, 46, on Thursday on charges of possession of dangerous drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia and marijuana possession, according to\u00a0Baldwin County\u00a0jail records.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrity news site TMZ was first to report on Gillum\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Gillum, the former Tallahassee mayor who narrowly lost Florida\u2019s 2018 governor\u2019s race to Ron DeSantis, was arrested&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[59493,136953,5558,28,2324,136952,9085,13762,136947,51374,136948,136950,136949,136945,136946,136951,109589,55550,136942,136943,136954,136944,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-332001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-andrew-gillum","tag-chemicals-in-medicine","tag-drugs","tag-florida","tag-florida-am-university","tag-florida-am-university-alumni","tag-florida-democratic-party","tag-florida-democrats","tag-florida-politicians","tag-government-of-florida","tag-government-of-tallahassee","tag-governors-of-florida","tag-mayors-of-tallahassee","tag-people-from-florida","tag-people-from-tallahassee","tag-pharmaceutical-sciences","tag-pharmacology","tag-pharmacy","tag-politicians-from-tallahassee","tag-politics-of-florida","tag-society-of-florida","tag-state-constitutional-officers-of-florida","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332001","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=332001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}