{"id":370753,"date":"2026-08-13T22:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T22:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/370753\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T22:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T22:24:08","slug":"gillum-in-court-former-tallahassee-mayor-appears-in-baldwin-county-on-drug-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/370753\/","title":{"rendered":"Gillum in court: Former Tallahassee mayor appears in Baldwin County on drug charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MOBILE, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10tv.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WALA<\/a>) &#8211; Andrew Gillum appeared in a Baldwin County courtroom Thursday, remaining behind bars after his bond was revoked last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gillum served as mayor of Tallahassee from 2014 to 2018 and was the Democratic nominee for Florida governor in 2018, losing to Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic stop leads to drug charges<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On July 2, Gillum was pulled over in Daphne for allegedly driving erratically. Police allegedly found a glass pipe, marijuana, and three packs of a substance that later tested positive for methamphetamine. He was released the following day.<\/p>\n<p>Bond revoked after failed drug test<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gillum\u2019s bond was revoked last Thursday after he failed a drug test in court. He remains in custody. His next court date is scheduled for Aug. 27.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WALA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) &#8211; Andrew Gillum appeared in a Baldwin County courtroom Thursday, remaining behind bars after his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[59493,149969,149966,149967,148646,149968,232,234,233,1070],"class_list":["post-370753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-andrew-gillum","tag-baldwin-county-alabama","tag-baldwin-county-court","tag-former-florida-governor-candidate","tag-former-tallahassee-mayor","tag-methamphetamine-arrest","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-traffic-stop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370753","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=370753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}