{"id":92888,"date":"2025-12-22T20:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/92888\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T20:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:50:08","slug":"routine-call-leads-st-lucie-deputies-to-wanted-felon-with-cocaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/92888\/","title":{"rendered":"Routine call leads St. Lucie deputies to wanted felon with cocaine"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Deputies responding to a call on Tamarind Drive say they ended up arresting a man already wanted on several felony warrants, with cocaine possession added to the list.<\/p>\n

Officers with the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office say they responded to the 2500 block of Tamarind Drive for a call for service.<\/p>\n

See also: Sheriff’s office pulls deputies from patrolling Loxahatchee Groves amid contract dispute<\/a><\/p>\n

Upon arrival, deputies say they discovered 31-year-old Brandon Madill, who had active felony warrants out of Brevard County, including:<\/p>\n

Written electronic threats to kill or do bodily harmTwo counts of aggravated assault with intent to commit a felonyUnlawful use of a two-way communication deviceTampering with evidenceCriminal mischief<\/p>\n

In addition to the counts from his warrant, deputies say Madill also had cocaine on his person.<\/p>\n

“Madill was also charged with Possession of Cocaine, because nothing says ‘holiday planning’ like adding new charges while trying to dodge old ones,” the sheriff’s office said in a post to Facebook<\/a>. “Much like the Grinch discovered in Whoville, avoiding accountability is not a holiday tradition.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Deputies responding to a call on Tamarind Drive say they ended up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-92888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92888","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=92888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}