{"id":375188,"date":"2026-08-19T02:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375188\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T02:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:06:10","slug":"jacksonville-police-investigate-potentially-gang-related-graffiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375188\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville police investigate potentially gang-related graffiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    \u00b7<\/p>\n<p>\n                        August 18, 2026 at 6:30 pm\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Ore. \u2013\u00a0Workers cleaned graffiti out of a public restroom in Jacksonville on Tuesday as police investigate the vandalism\u2019s possible connection to gang activity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Jacksonville Police Department responded to a report of graffiti vandalism in the Rich Gulch and Britt Trail area on Sunday morning. Officers reported locating several blue tags that they say appeared to indicate a connection to a specific gang organization.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville Public Works removed the visible vandalism outside. A heavily tagged bathroom nearby was secured for cleaning, which was in progress on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they are actively investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville Police and the Jacksonville City Administrator did not respond to a request for comment today.\u00a0<img data-modal-src=\"https:\/\/img.kobi5.com\/YKDTEgQk_MaqT9Jze_uJvXT2tOhhjQVsBrYa2Y0m_a0\/rs:fit:1600:0\/q:80\/plain\/https:\/\/cdn.kobi5.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vlcsnap-2026-08-18-18h28m46s811.png@webp\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-313579 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vlcsnap-2026-08-18-18h28m46s811.png@webp.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"248\"  \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.9rem;font-style: italic;\">\u00a9 2026 KOBI-TV NBC5. All rights reserved unless otherwise stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00b7 August 18, 2026 at 6:30 pm JACKSONVILLE, Ore. \u2013\u00a0Workers cleaned graffiti out of a public restroom in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32283,40222,5949,116,118,117,15668],"class_list":["post-375188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-gang-activity","tag-graffiti","tag-jackson-county","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375188","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=375188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}