JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Dipakkumar Ghelani, of India, is in the Duval County Jail charged with trafficking cannabis.<\/p>\n
Ghelani, 34, was arrested by the Florida Highway Patrol on April 16.<\/p>\n
According to a news release from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Ghelani was trafficking drugs with an estimated street value of $13 million.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cGhelani\u2019s arrest shows how valuable our 287(g) partnerships<\/a> are,\u201d said ICE Director Todd M. Lyons. \u201cThe Florida Highway Patrol has consistently proven to be a reliable partner in supporting ICE\u2019s efforts to arrest potentially dangerous criminal illegal aliens like Ghelani, who\u2019s been convicted of providing alcohol to a child and arrested for felony possession of money from selling drugs, being a fugitive from justice, and drug trafficking.\u201d <\/p>\n ICE reports that Ghelani was in the U.S. illegally. His visa expired in May 2019. <\/p>\n He is due in court in Jacksonville on May 7. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges. ICE says he will face immigration proceedings.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Dipakkumar Ghelani, of India, is in the Duval County Jail charged with trafficking cannabis. Ghelani,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":751800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[7320,5229,7323,309404,3188,723,45169,7324,5410,309405,7310,7327,7325,7326,2065,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7322,7321],"class_list":["post-751799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-america","tag-cbs47","tag-dipakkumar-ghelani","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-fox30","tag-ice","tag-ice-arrest-in-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-northeast-florida","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116464449429594683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751799","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=751799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}