Andrew Gillum, the former Democratic rising star who narrowly lost Florida’s 2018 governor’s race to Ron DeSantis, was arrested last week in Alabama on drug-related charges, according to police records cited in a new report.
Gillum was taken into custody Thursday night by officers in Daphne, Alabama, and booked into the Baldwin County jail.
Online police records show he was booked on charges of possession of dangerous drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana.
The Daphne Police Department has not yet released details on what led to Gillum’s latest run-in with law enforcement.
The arrest marks another humiliating chapter for the onetime liberal darling, who was once treated by Democrats and the media as a future national star.
Gillum came within about 30,000 votes of becoming Florida governor in 2018 after winning the Democratic primary and facing off against DeSantis in the general election.
Before that race, Gillum served as mayor of Tallahassee from 2014 to 2018.
His political career later unraveled after a series of scandals and legal troubles.
Andrew Gillum Mugshot- Screenshot TMZ
In 2020, Gillum was found by paramedics inside a room at the Mondrian Hotel in South Beach, Florida, along with another man who appeared to be suffering from a possible overdose.
Police body camera footage later showed several prescription pill bottles inside the room.
Officers also removed three small bags of methamphetamine.
Gillum was not charged in that incident.
Prosecutors did not formally charge Gillum or the other man in the room because there was insufficient evidence tying them directly to the drugs, which were not found on their persons.
The former mayor later stepped away from public life and said he would seek help after the South Beach incident.
Gillum also faced federal fraud charges in a separate case tied to his political operation, though that prosecution ended without a full conviction.
His latest arrest brings the former Democratic nominee back into headlines for the wrong reasons.
Once pitched as the future of Florida Democrats, Gillum is now facing another criminal case, this time in Alabama.
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