{"id":356978,"date":"2026-07-30T00:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T00:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356978\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T00:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T00:47:20","slug":"jacksonville-police-arrest-jsu-student-on-first-degree-rape-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356978\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Police Arrest JSU Student on First-Degree Rape Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Jacksonville, AL \u2013 Jacksonville Police arrested a 21-year-old Jacksonville State University student Wednesday morning on a charge of rape in the first degree following an investigation that began with a welfare check.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">According to the Jacksonville Police Department, officers responded early Wednesday morning to a residence in the 600 block of Ivy Row NE after a concerned friend requested a welfare check on behalf of a woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">When officers arrived, they found Daniel Adegboyega, 21, a Jacksonville State University student and member of the university\u2019s men\u2019s basketball team, according to his public Instagram profile, and a woman at the residence. Police said officers observed that the woman appeared uncomfortable and seemed to want to leave the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Officers transported the woman to her residence, where she was interviewed. Investigators also interviewed Adegboyega before placing him under arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Adegboyega was charged with rape in the first degree and is being held at the Calhoun County Jail without bond. A court date has not yet been set and is pending the outcome of an Aniah\u2019s Law hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cWe would like our residents to know that this is an isolated incident, and there is no evidence of an ongoing threat to public safety,\u201d Jacksonville Police Chief Marcus Wood said.<\/p>\n<p>As with all criminal charges, the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-101985\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Rape-Arrest-2.jpg\" alt=\"Rape Arrest\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-101989\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_2971.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"381\"  \/>Screenshot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville, AL \u2013 Jacksonville Police arrested a 21-year-old Jacksonville State University student Wednesday morning on a charge of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-356978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356978","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=356978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}