{"id":332090,"date":"2026-07-07T18:13:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/332090\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T18:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:13:24","slug":"former-candidate-for-florida-governor-arrested-on-drug-charges-in-daphne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/332090\/","title":{"rendered":"Former candidate for Florida governor arrested on drug charges in Daphne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">DAPHNE, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10tv.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WALA<\/a>) &#8211; Andrew Demetric Gillum, a former mayor of Tallahassee and the 2018 Democratic nominee for governor of Florida, was arrested on drug charges in Daphne last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Daphne Police Department, it was about 10:45 p.m. on Thursday when officers conducted a traffic stop on U.S. 98 near N. Main Street after observing erratic driving. The driver was identified as 46-year-old Gillum, of Tallahassee.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Andrew Demetric Gillum\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2HWOS3YAXVBTHN3WB2W3UWHUXY.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"879\" \/>Andrew Demetric Gillum(Baldwin County Correctional Facility)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said 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, the DPD said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Several rolled marijuana cigarettes and three packages of a substance that tested positive for methamphetamine were recovered, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gillum was charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance (a class D felony) and possession of marijuana in the second Degree (a class A misdemeanor), police said. He was booked into the Daphne City Jail and later transported to the Baldwin County Correctional Facility. He was released Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gillum was the Democratic nominee in the 2018 Florida gubernatorial election, narrowly losing to Republican Ron DeSantis in the general election.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WALA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAPHNE, Ala. (WALA) &#8211; Andrew Demetric Gillum, a former mayor of Tallahassee and the 2018 Democratic nominee for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-332090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332090","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=332090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}