{"id":65638,"date":"2026-05-12T21:26:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=65638"},"modified":"2026-05-12T21:26:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:26:59","slug":"polk-sheriff-grady-judd-gets-covered-in-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/05\/12\/polk-sheriff-grady-judd-gets-covered-in-milk\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk Sheriff Grady Judd gets covered in milk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On <strong>Monday, May 11, 2026<\/strong>, Sheriff Grady Judd was doused in milk and cereal as part of a charity event for <strong>Feeding Tampa Bay<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-dominant-color=\"848a8c\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #848a8c;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"234\" height=\"257\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-12T212131.397.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65639 not-transparent\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/crime\/polk-sheriff-grady-judd-gets-covered-in-milk-for-a-good-cause\/vi-AA22VVFC?ocid=socialshare#comments\">https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/crime\/polk-sheriff-grady-judd-gets-covered-in-milk-for-a-good-cause\/vi-AA22VVFC?ocid=socialshare#comments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is the breakdown of what happened:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Campaign:<\/strong> The event is part of the annual <strong>&#8220;Cereal for Summer&#8221;<\/strong> initiative. The goal is to collect cereal boxes for children who rely on school meals and might go hungry during the summer break.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The &#8220;Mess&#8221;:<\/strong> To grab people&#8217;s attention for the cause, the Sheriff&#8217;s Office released a video of Judd sitting at a table with a giant bowl. Instead of a normal breakfast, he ended up with milk and cereal poured over him.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>How to Participate:<\/strong> The Sheriff is encouraging residents to drop off new boxes of cereal at any Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office district station or at either of the county jails. The drive is running from now until <strong>May 29th<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s definitely a classic Grady Judd move\u2014using a bit of humor and a &#8220;viral&#8221; stunt to push a community message. You can find the clip on the PCSO social media pages or local news outlets like 10 Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, May 11, 2026, Sheriff Grady Judd was doused in milk and cereal as part of a charity event for Feeding Tampa Bay. https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/crime\/polk-sheriff-grady-judd-gets-covered-in-milk-for-a-good-cause\/vi-AA22VVFC?ocid=socialshare#comments Here is the breakdown of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65639,"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":"dois","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDVcL1NjcmVlbnNob3QtMjAyNi0wNS0xMlQyMTIxMzEuMzk3LndlYnA_Zml0PTIzNCUyQzI1NyZzc2w9MSIsInR4dCI6IlBvbGsgU2hlcmlmZiBHcmFkeSBKdWRkIGdldHMgY292ZXJlZCBpbiBtaWxrIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJkb2lzIiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.EuYC70VKyv0a0D3CyP5kzKe90Mb_ACmq6jS1xq2lLoYMQ"},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzA1XC9TY3JlZW5zaG90LTIwMjYtMDUtMTJUMjEyMTMxLjM5Ny53ZWJwIiwidHh0IjoiUG9sayBTaGVyaWZmIEdyYWR5IEp1ZGQgZ2V0cyBjb3ZlcmVkIGluIG1pbGsiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImRvaXMiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.sp4RNbaCoAyuHeMeHjuB0P9IoYW8Xdl6f6QiqhAGa9EMQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[14615],"class_list":["post-65638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-polk-sheriff-grady-judd-gets-covered-in-milk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65638","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=65638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65640,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65638\/revisions\/65640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}