{"id":397353,"date":"2026-09-11T23:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T23:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397353\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T23:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T23:04:14","slug":"police-clear-area-near-edgewood-ave-reed-street-in-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397353\/","title":{"rendered":"Police clear area near Edgewood Ave., Reed Street in Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  style=\"object-fit:cover;max-width:1920px;max-height:1080px;aspect-ratio:1.7777777777777777;width:100%\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789167854_408_E5N2T3UCNZF4NE7MQDT6KCLNRA.png\"\/>Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office Logo (WJXT,  Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla.  \u2013 Jacksonville drivers were asked to avoid the area of Edgewood Avenue West and Reed Street due to law enforcement activity, according to a JAX Ready alert issued Friday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office said it was responding to a report of a person with a mental illness. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Drivers were encouraged to plan alternate routes until the situation is resolved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">As 3:30 p.m., JSO confirmed with News4JAX that officers were no longer on scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ilkOIf copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office Logo (WJXT, Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Jacksonville&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16859,116,118,117,1872],"class_list":["post-397353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-edgewood-avenue","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397353","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=397353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}