{"id":333765,"date":"2026-07-08T23:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333765\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T23:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:50:07","slug":"former-candidate-for-florida-governor-faces-drug-court-hearing-in-baldwin-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333765\/","title":{"rendered":"Former candidate for Florida governor faces drug court hearing in Baldwin County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10tv.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WALA<\/a>) &#8211; A Baldwin County judge has set a drug court hearing for Andrew Gillum, the former mayor of Tallahassee and the 2018 Democratic nominee for governor of Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Daphne police arrested Gillum on Thursday after officers stopped him on U.S. 98 near North Main Street for erratic driving. Officers said they observed a glass pipe on the center console of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>What was recovered<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said several rolled marijuana cigarettes and three packages of a substance that tested positive for methamphetamine were recovered during the stop.<\/p>\n<p>Court date and bond<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gillum\u2019s court date is set for July 16. He is free on a $6,500 bond.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WALA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. (WALA) &#8211; A Baldwin County judge has set a drug court hearing for Andrew Gillum,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-333765","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\/333765","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=333765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}