{"id":138517,"date":"2025-08-12T02:28:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T02:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/138517\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T02:28:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T02:28:28","slug":"customers-and-family-rally-around-jacksonville-coffee-shop-owner-in-ice-custody-following-sjc-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/138517\/","title":{"rendered":"Customers and family rally around Jacksonville coffee shop owner in ICE custody following SJC arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">Supporters of a popular Springfield coffee shop are calling for the release of its owner, who is currently being held in federal immigration custody.<br \/>\nDiana Marcela Mejia-Pedraza, 40, was arrested by the St. Johns County Sheriff\u2019s Office on Aug. 2 after being accused of trespassing outside a Dollar General store in St. Augustine. She is now being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under an immigration detainer.<br \/>\nAccording to her family, Mejia-Pedraza is a Colombian native who owns Art Essence Coffee on Main Street. They said she has a work permit, a Social Security number, and has been operating her business legally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS Supporters of a popular Springfield coffee shop are calling for the release of its owner, who is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":138518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,5410,7310,10427,14638,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-138517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-ice","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-springfield","14":"tag-st-johns-county","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115013438919956266","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}