{"id":4865,"date":"2011-03-24T15:48:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T19:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4865"},"modified":"2011-03-24T15:48:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T19:48:25","slug":"teacher-busted-in-meth-sting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4865","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Busted In Meth Sting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An undercover drug investigation has led to the arrest of a Hillsborough County teacher. He was charged with trafficking in methamphetamines and is currently being held without bond.<\/p>\n<p>According to a spokesperson for the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office, <strong>Keith Bernard Jones<\/strong>, 39, was taken into custody about 6:30 p.m., Wednesday after he purchased 2 ounces (58 grams) of methamphetamine from an undercover officer. The transaction took place at the corner of Fletcher and Dale Mabry Avenue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones<\/strong> allegedly purchased the illegal drugs with $4,000 in U. S. currency.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jones<\/strong> was hired by the Hillsborough County School District as a 6th grade teacher in 1997.<strong> Jones<\/strong> was assigned to Davidson Middle School at the time of his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The Hillsborough County School Board has the authority to suspend him without pay. They will make that determination during the next board meeting in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An undercover drug investigation has led to the arrest of a Hillsborough County teacher. He was charged with trafficking in methamphetamines and is currently being held without bond. According to a spokesperson for the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Keith Bernard Jones, 39, was taken into custody about 6:30 p.m., Wednesday after he purchased 2 ounces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}