{"id":367575,"date":"2026-08-10T16:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/367575\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T16:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:28:08","slug":"federal-charges-to-be-announced-against-violent-drug-trafficking-organization-in-northeast-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/367575\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal charges to be announced against violent drug trafficking organization in Northeast Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No description found<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla.  \u2013 Federal, state and local law enforcement officials are set to hold a press conference Monday in Jacksonville to announce federal charges against members of a violent drug trafficking organization operating in northeast Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">U.S. Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe of the Middle District of Florida is scheduled to lead the announcement at 1:30 p.m. at the United States Courthouse on Hogan Street. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">News4JAX plans to stream the announcement at 1:30 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Joining Kehoe will be Christopher Whitley, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration; Shawn Coarsey, Undersheriff of the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office; and Jon Hooper, Undersheriff of the Nassau County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Officials plan to announce the unsealing of a federal indictment related to a violent drug trafficking organization with ties to northeast Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No description found JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Federal, state and local law enforcement officials are set to hold a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11742,1039,28,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-367575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-drug-trafficking","tag-duval-county","tag-florida","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367575","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=367575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}