{"id":748739,"date":"2026-07-07T15:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/748739\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:45:10","slug":"ex-florida-gubernatorial-candidate-andrew-gillum-arrested-in-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/748739\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum arrested in Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 7, 2026 at 9:20 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0July 7, 2026 at 9:35 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/P4LHQ6TW3NDA3B2GNURGW47HTM.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>(Baldwin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DAPHNE, Ala. \u2014 Andrew Gillum, who lost to Ron DeSantis by an extremely slim margin in the 2018 Florida governor\u2019s race and served as Tallahassee\u2019s mayor from 2014-2018, was arrested last week in Alabama on drug charges, Local 10 News learned Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/07\/arrestan-en-alabama-al-ex-candidato-a-gobernador-de-florida-andrew-gillum\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/07\/arrestan-en-alabama-al-ex-candidato-a-gobernador-de-florida-andrew-gillum\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to online jail records, the former politician was arrested Thursday night in Daphne, Alabama on charges of possession of dangerous drugs, drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has since been released from jail. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Further details surrounding the 46-year-old\u2019s arrest were not immediately released. Local 10 News has requested a copy of his arrest report from the Daphne Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gillum, who ran as a Democrat against DeSantis in the 2018 election, previously made headlines in March 2020 after Miami Beach police said they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2020\/04\/22\/police-release-photos-of-hotel-room-where-andrew-gillum-found-in-apparent-incoherent-state\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2020\/04\/22\/police-release-photos-of-hotel-room-where-andrew-gillum-found-in-apparent-incoherent-state\/\">found him at the Mondrian South Beach Hotel in an \u201cinebriated\u201d state with two other men.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to a police report, officers found three small clear bags inside the hotel room containing suspected crystal meth, although the men were never charged with a crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gillum released a statement after the 2020 incident, saying he was at a wedding the night before the incident and was drinking, but denied taking any methamphetamines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gillum also made headlines in 2023 when he was<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/gillum-corruption-trial-florida-desantis-c6fc38fd504c3c48f72e8050d1779df0\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/gillum-corruption-trial-florida-desantis-c6fc38fd504c3c48f72e8050d1779df0\"> acquitted of lying to the FBI <\/a>in a corruption case that also involved illegal use of campaign contributions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has not publicly released a statement regarding the latest incident in Alabama, as of Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 7, 2026 at 9:20 AM Updated:\u00a0July 7, 2026 at 9:35 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand(Baldwin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office) DAPHNE, Ala.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-748739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748739","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=748739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}