{"id":975962,"date":"2026-08-02T15:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T15:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/975962\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T15:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T15:54:23","slug":"jacksonville-area-police-news-for-aug-3-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/975962\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville-area police news for Aug. 3, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 A 24-year-old Jacksonville man was arrested at 1:53 a.m. Sunday in the 600 block of North Prairie Street on a criminal trespassing charge. He was accused of entering a vehicle without permission.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A 37-year-old Jacksonville woman was arrested at 9:08 p.m. Saturday in the 600 block of South Church Street on a possession of drug paraphernalia charge. She was also cited on charges of improper lane use and having a driver\u2019s license that has been expired for more than a year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A 19-year-old Jacksonville man was arrested at 6:12 p.m. Saturday in the 300 block of West Court Street on a DeWitt County warrant accusing him of failing to appear in court on a charge of possession of adult-use cannabis by a driver.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A 24-year-old homeless man was arrested at 2:29 p.m. Saturday on a criminal trespassing charge after being accused of disturbing customers at Circle K, 602 N. Main St.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A 34-year-old Springfield woman was arrested at 11:20 a.m. Saturday in the 200 block of West Morton Avenue on a Morgan County warrant accusing her of failing to appear in court on a speeding charge.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Police were called at 12:45 a.m. Sunday to a disturbance in the 2100 block of New Lake Road. Those involved separated before officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Police were called at 1:22 p.m. Saturday to a disturbance in the 700 block of East Douglas Avenue involving an altercation about a dog. Those involved were separated.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A 61-year-old Jacksonville man was cited on a charge of failing to obey a stop sign and a 27-year-old Jacksonville man was cited on a charge of operating an uninsured motor vehicle after their cars collided at 9:37 p.m. Saturday at West Douglas Avenue and North Main Street.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A 90-year-old South Jacksonville woman was cited on a charge of improper lane use after her car and one being driven by a 59-year-old Jacksonville man collided at 12:04 p.m. Saturday in the 1600 block of West Morton Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A 19-year-old Roodhouse man was cited on a charge of improper lane use after the car he was driving and one being driven by a 47-year-old Marysville, Pennsylvania, woman collided at 12:41 p.m. Saturday at Illinois Route 104 and West Lafayette Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A bicycle was stolen from the 900 block of West Walnut Street, according to a report filed at 10:48 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022 A 24-year-old Jacksonville man was arrested at 1:53 a.m. Sunday in the 600 block of North Prairie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":702284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,344472,50,7207,291033,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-975962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-america","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-jacksonville","tag-jaxhomeless","tag-news","tag-police","tag-pubnow","tag-top-stories","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117026728723858148","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975962","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=975962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}