{"id":332023,"date":"2026-07-07T17:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/332023\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T17:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:08:08","slug":"former-florida-gubernatorial-candidate-andrew-gillum-arrested-in-alabama-on-drug-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/332023\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum arrested in Alabama on drug charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tVideo above: A look at the forecastFormer Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum was arrested in Alabama after police said they found methamphetamine and marijuana during a traffic stop.Officers stopped Gillum, 46, of Tallahassee, Florida, about 10:45 p.m. July 2 on U.S. Highway 98 near North Main Street after observing erratic driving, according to the Daphne Police Department,Police said an officer spotted a glass pipe on the vehicle’s center console, prompting a probable cause search. Officers said they recovered several rolled marijuana cigarettes and three packages containing a substance that field-tested positive for methamphetamine.Gillum was charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance, a Class D felony, and second-degree possession of marijuana, a Class A misdemeanor, police said. He was booked into the Daphne City Jail before being transferred to the Baldwin County Correctional Facility. Court records show Gillum was later released.>> COMMUNITY, STATE AND COUNTRY: WVTM 13 coverage on politicsGillum, a former Tallahassee mayor, was the Democratic nominee for Florida governor in 2018. He narrowly lost to Republican Ron DeSantis in one of the state’s closest gubernatorial races.It was not immediately known Tuesday whether Gillum had retained an attorney to represent him in the Alabama case. There was no immediate public comment from Gillum regarding the arrest.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Video above: A look at the forecast<\/p>\n

Former Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum was arrested in Alabama after police said they found methamphetamine and marijuana during a traffic stop.<\/p>\n

Officers stopped Gillum, 46, of Tallahassee, Florida, about 10:45 p.m. July 2 on U.S. Highway 98 near North Main Street after observing erratic driving, according to the Daphne Police Department,<\/p>\n

Police said an officer spotted a glass pipe on the vehicle’s center console, prompting a probable cause search. Officers said they recovered several rolled marijuana cigarettes and three packages containing a substance that field-tested positive for methamphetamine.<\/p>\n

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Gillum was charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance, a Class D felony, and second-degree possession of marijuana, a Class A misdemeanor, police said. <\/p>\n

He was booked into the Daphne City Jail before being transferred to the Baldwin County Correctional Facility. Court records show Gillum was later released.<\/p>\n

>> COMMUNITY, STATE AND COUNTRY: WVTM 13 coverage on politics<\/a><\/p>\n

Gillum, a former Tallahassee mayor, was the Democratic nominee for Florida governor in 2018. He narrowly lost to Republican Ron DeSantis in one of the state’s closest gubernatorial races.<\/p>\n

It was not immediately known Tuesday whether Gillum had retained an attorney to represent him in the Alabama case. There was no immediate public comment from Gillum regarding the arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video above: A look at the forecastFormer Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum was arrested in Alabama after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8173,9227,6980,63904,28,30,29,136940,7659,7971,1224,132,136966,914,10716,1070,732,74219],"class_list":["post-332023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-alabama","tag-country","tag-coverage","tag-drug-charge","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-gillum","tag-marijuana","tag-methamphetamine","tag-officer","tag-police","tag-politicsgillum","tag-state","tag-substance","tag-traffic-stop","tag-vehicle","tag-wvtm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332023","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=332023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}