After a standoff, Jacksonville police arrested a man Wednesday wanted for the high-profile murder of a prominent Atlanta club owner in 2023.<\/p>\n
Police from Jacksonville and Atlanta and U.S. marshals used an energetic door breach to grab Jonathan Soto, 43, from inside an apartment on Gate Parkway North.<\/p>\n
Soto was one of the Atlanta Police Department’s most wanted for the highly publicized murder in 2023 of Michael Gidewon, 50, a co-owner of the popular Republic Lounge in Atlanta.<\/p>\n
Soto has been booked into the Duval County Jail, police said in a news release.<\/p>\n
The murder in February 2023 occurred after an individual was escorted out of the popular nightclub after an argument and due to intoxication, police said.<\/p>\n
According to reports, the same man return with a gun and shot Gidewon dead outside the club at 7 a.m..<\/p>\n
Following the tragedy, Republic Lounge<\/a> announced its permanent closure via social media, stating “RIP @REPUBLICATL 2019-2023\u2033<\/p>\n Soto was identified by Atlanta police as a suspect.<\/p>\n The Gidewon family had offered a reward of up to $250,000 for information leading to his capture.<\/p>\n >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a standoff, Jacksonville police arrested a man Wednesday wanted for the high-profile murder of a prominent Atlanta…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7849,163280,116,118,117,163281,163282],"class_list":["post-411698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-police","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jonathan-soto","tag-michael-gidewon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411698","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=411698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}