{"id":788226,"date":"2026-07-27T23:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T23:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/788226\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T23:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T23:53:08","slug":"st-johns-county-sheriffs-office-sergeant-arrested-fired-after-violating-protective-injunction-sjcso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/788226\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Johns County Sheriff\u2019s Office sergeant arrested, fired after violating protective injunction: SJCSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla.  \u2013 A St. Johns County Sheriff\u2019s Office corrections sergeant has been arrested and terminated following a criminal investigation launched last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The Sheriff\u2019s office tells News4JAX on July 23, information came forward to the St. Johns County Sheriff\u2019s Office regarding a sworn employee, prompting a criminal investigation by the agency\u2019s Special Victims Unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The following day, SJCSO says Sgt. Michael Clark, of the corrections division, was issued a temporary injunction for protection and placed on emergency suspension pending the legal process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The Sheriff\u2019s Office says Clark was arrested July 25, after authorities reported he violated the injunction. The SJSO Special Victims Unit took Clark into custody, and he was booked into the SJSO Detention Center before being transferred to the Putnam County Sheriff\u2019s Office. Clark has since bonded out with GPS monitoring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The St. Johns County Sheriff\u2019s Office says it has terminated Clark following the alleged criminal act. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Officials say no further details will be released, citing the sensitive and active nature of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 A St. Johns County Sheriff\u2019s Office corrections sergeant has been arrested and terminated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11551,4,450,451,3,3255,452,453],"class_list":["post-788226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-arrest","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-st-johns-county","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788226","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=788226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}