{"id":366213,"date":"2026-08-08T13:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/366213\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T13:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:24:14","slug":"tmz-former-tallahassee-mayor-and-gubernatorial-candidate-andrew-gillum-back-in-alabama-jail-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/366213\/","title":{"rendered":"TMZ: Former Tallahassee mayor and gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum back in Alabama jail &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. (WSVN) \u2013 TMZ is reporting that the former Tallahassee mayor and 2018 Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum has been sent back to an Alabama jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to TMZ, prosecutors said he failed a drug test at a court appearance on Thursday after initially missing a random drug test.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gillum was <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/politics\/ex-florida-gubernatorial-candidate-andrew-gillum-arrested-on-drug-possession-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">arrested in July on drug charges in Alabama<\/a>, when officers pulled him over and found marijuana and meth in his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. (WSVN) \u2013 TMZ is reporting that the former Tallahassee mayor and 2018 Florida gubernatorial candidate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-366213","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\/366213","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=366213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}