{"id":58674,"date":"2025-10-24T19:59:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T23:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=58674"},"modified":"2025-10-24T19:59:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T23:59:56","slug":"meth-weed-and-warrants-and-even-more-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/10\/24\/meth-weed-and-warrants-and-even-more-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Meth, Weed, And Warrants And Even More Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A warrant service call in a neighborhood east of Lakeland on Thursday, October 23rd, led to the arrest of a wanted felon who was allegedly found with illegal drugs and attempting to evade capture.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"796b61\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"276\" height=\"336\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-100-15.webp?resize=276%2C336&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58675 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #796b61; width:406px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-100-15.webp?w=276&amp;ssl=1 276w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-100-15.webp?resize=246%2C300&amp;ssl=1 246w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At approximately 7 p.m., deputies from the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office (PCSO) responded to a residence off Saddle Creek Road to locate Colby Roy Fudge, 33, who was wanted on an active felony warrant for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Upon arriving at the property, deputies located Mr. Fudge in the backyard, attempting to conceal himself from law enforcement inside a shed. As deputies approached the shed, they reportedly observed Fudge toss a backpack deeper into the structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fudge was quickly taken into custody. The backpack was retrieved and, upon inspection, was found to contain bags of marijuana and methamphetamine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to his initial felony warrant, Colby Fudge was transported to the Sheriff\u2019s Processing Center and faces several new charges, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Possession of Methamphetamine<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Possession of Marijuana with Intent to Sell<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Possession of Drug Paraphernalia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Resisting without Violence<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tampering with Evidence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities noted that Fudge has an extensive prior criminal history, which includes prior arrests for burglary, theft, criminal mischief, weapons violations, narcotics, and criminal traffic offenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A warrant service call in a neighborhood east of Lakeland on Thursday, October 23rd, led to the arrest of a wanted felon who was allegedly found with illegal drugs and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"12","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMTBcL1NjcmVlbnNob3QtMTAwLTE1LndlYnA_Zml0PTI3NiUyQzMzNiZzc2w9MSIsInR4dCI6Ik1ldGgsIFdlZWQsIEFuZCBXYXJyYW50cyBBbmQgRXZlbiBNb3JlIFRyb3VibGUiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImhpZ2h3YXkiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.2eKt5uFZpr0vFb2JMQ8U_tczKRGVoQ0Ymdoo1vxw99cMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":58675,"url":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-100-15.webp","type":"image\/png"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[12456,12454,12455],"class_list":["post-58674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-and-warrants-and-even-more-trouble","tag-meth","tag-weed"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58676,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58674\/revisions\/58676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}