{"id":712693,"date":"2026-06-19T02:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T02:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/712693\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T02:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T02:23:10","slug":"man-in-custody-after-clay-county-deputies-respond-to-mental-health-crisis-in-fleming-island-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/712693\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in custody after Clay County deputies respond to mental health crisis in Fleming Island neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clay County deputies on the scene of an active Thursday night investigation (WJXT)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">FLEMING ISLAND, Fla. \u2013 A man was taken into custody on Thursday night after the Clay County Sheriff\u2019s Office responded to a mental health crisis that led to the evacuation of surrounding areas near Lake Shore Drive and Stratford Lane in Fleming Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">A large police presence was reported Thursday night. Deputies responded to the area after a man fired a few shots into the ground, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/CCSO.The\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/CCSO.The\">CCSO.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The SWAT team arrived at the scene to negotiate with the man, who deputies said was contained in his yard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The Clay County Sheriff\u2019s Office is asking the community to avoid the area as deputies work to clear the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clay County deputies on the scene of an active Thursday night investigation (WJXT) FLEMING ISLAND, Fla. \u2013 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,42699,282687,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-712693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-clay-county","tag-fleming-island","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}