{"id":398065,"date":"2026-09-12T18:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398065\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T18:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:00:28","slug":"drug-trafficker-missing-after-failing-to-report-to-georgia-facility-after-miami-transfer-feds-say-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398065\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug trafficker missing after failing to report to Georgia facility after Miami transfer, feds say \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A convicted drug trafficker is missing after failing to report to a federal correctional facility in Georgia following a furlough transfer from Miami, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. Department of Justice, at approximately 9 p.m. on Friday, 47-year-old Sherman Kemp was discovered missing after he failed to report to the adjacent satellite camp at the Federal Correctional Institution in Jesup, Georgia, following a furlough transfer from FCI Miami.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Marshals Service, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies were notified, and an internal investigation was launched.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Kemp is serving an aggregate 324-month sentence imposed in Maryland and Pennsylvania for conspiracy to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, felon in possession of a firearm, possession with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine, and conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A convicted drug trafficker is missing after failing to report to a federal correctional facility in Georgia following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1219,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-398065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398065","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=398065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}