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Andrew Gillum, who was the Democratic nominee in the 2018 Florida governor’s race, was arrested last week on drug-related offenses, according to jail records.
Officers from the Daphne Police Department in Alabama arrested Gillum on July 2 at 10:44 p.m. CDT, according to booking records from the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office.
Gillum, 46, was booked and released from jail on July 3. He was charged with possession of dangerous drugs, use or possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana, according to the records.
The former mayor of Tallahassee, Fla., lost the 2018 gubernatorial race to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in the general election by fewer than 34,000 votes — the slimmest margin in a Florida governor’s race since 1916.
In March 2020, police in Miami Beach, Fla., said they found Gillum, alongside a male escort, “inebriated” after he used methamphetamine at a South Beach hotel. He has been married to his wife, Rashada Jai Howard, since 2009.
Gillum did not face criminal charges from the 2020 incident, nor did he amid an FBI investigation into corruption on his part while serving as mayor. The Democrat and the Florida Commission on Ethics eventually agreed he would pay a $5,000 fine.
In 2022, a federal grand jury indicted Gillum and Sharon Lettman-Hicks, his longtime adviser, on 19 counts each of wire fraud. The former gubernatorial candidate was also charged with making false statements to the FBI.
Less than a year later, a jury found Gillum not guilty of lying to the FBI.
Jason Coody, then the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Florida, dropped the remaining charges against Gillum and Letterman-Hicks shortly thereafter.
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