{"id":414955,"date":"2026-09-30T19:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414955\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T19:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:22:09","slug":"florida-drug-investigation-leads-to-4-guns-meth-and-mdma-seizure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414955\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida drug investigation leads to 4 guns, meth and MDMA seizure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Tampa home became the target of a month-long investigation that ended with four guns, meth, cannabis, MDMA, and a pile of pills seized.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies with the <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/search?find=Hillsborough+County+Sheriff%27s+Office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/a> conducted a search warrant on Tuesday at a home in the 45000 block of Causeway Boulevard in Tampa, ending in the arrest of 38-year-old Russel Beasley and 56-year-old Jatte Beasley.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say they found a rifle, pistol, handgun, and revolver, along with ammunition, methamphetamine, marijuana, and drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/armed-shirtless-florida-man-allegedly-tries-to-force-woman-from-car-then-flees-brevard-county-florida-florida-man-shirtless-man-attempted-carjacking-armed-carjacking-carjacking-attempt-attempted-armed-carjacking-brevard-county-sheriffs-office-j\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Armed, shirtless Florida man allegedly tries to force way into woman&#8217;s car, then flees<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, deputies reportedly found crushed MDMA and several types of pills, including Baclofen, Meloxicam, Tizanidine Hydrochloride, and Buprenorphine.<\/p>\n<p>Russell was booked on counts of armed possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell or deliver and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, per deputies. Jatte faces counts of possession of less than 20 grams of cannabis, possession of drug paraphernalia, and armed possession of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Tampa home became the target of a month-long investigation that ended with four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-414955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414955","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=414955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}