{"id":77423,"date":"2025-12-09T20:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77423\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T20:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:23:06","slug":"sheriff-credits-work-of-narcotics-unit-with-contributing-to-significant-drop-in-overdose-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77423\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff credits work of Narcotics Unit with contributing to \u2018significant drop\u2019 in overdose deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">Jacksonville detectives have investigated more than 220 overdose deaths in 2025 and have arrested 17 drug dealers on manslaughter charges in connection with some of those cases, Sheriff T.K. Waters announced Tuesday.\u00a0Waters said the work of the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office Narcotics and Vice Section to get those drug dealers and their \u201cpoison\u201d off the streets has contributed to a \u201csignificant drop\u201d in overdose deaths this year, compared to the last several years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS Jacksonville detectives have investigated more than 220 overdose deaths in 2025 and have arrested 17 drug dealers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[265,5558,43413,116,118,117,1415,1872,43533,43412,2916],"class_list":{"0":"post-77423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-drugs","10":"tag-ending-overdose","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","13":"tag-jacksonville-news","14":"tag-jacksonville-sheriffs-office","15":"tag-jso","16":"tag-opioid-nation","17":"tag-overdose-deaths","18":"tag-t-k-waters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77423","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=77423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}