JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Jacksonville man with a lengthy criminal record is heading to federal prison for more than 11 years after being caught with a gun and cocaine. <\/p>\n
Malcolm Jewell Williams, 39, was sentenced after a jury found him guilty last July.<\/p>\n
Williams, who has 16 felony convictions and two domestic violence misdemeanors, was already banned from having guns.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Officials say he tried to sell drugs to an undercover officer at a local gas station, then ran from cops before being caught near a palm tree, where they found a loaded gun. <\/p>\n Officers also found cocaine and a scale with drug residue on him.<\/p>\n After being taken to jail, Williams managed to slip out of his cuffs and tried to escape again, but police caught him a second time. <\/p>\n At the time of his arrest, he was already out on bond for a meth bust in Georgia just months earlier.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Jacksonville man with a lengthy criminal record is heading to federal prison for more…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":389546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[14450,5229,13257,9240,91776,281,38914,18740,4219,8140,5375,3188,723,10767,40900,12651,15191,2327,40901,7310,6616,24717,72700,8142,3228,12846,4630,27466,185557,62494,72702,2089,58380,40906,36700,12433,91777,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,311,185558,72705],"class_list":{"0":"post-530126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-adult","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-authority","11":"tag-background","12":"tag-barrister","13":"tag-court","14":"tag-courthouse","15":"tag-courtroom","16":"tag-crime","17":"tag-criminal","18":"tag-enforcement","19":"tag-fl","20":"tag-florida","21":"tag-gavel","22":"tag-guilt","23":"tag-guilty","24":"tag-hammer","25":"tag-hand","26":"tag-innocence","27":"tag-jacksonville","28":"tag-judge","29":"tag-judgment","30":"tag-judicial","31":"tag-justice","32":"tag-law","33":"tag-lawyer","34":"tag-legal","35":"tag-litigation","36":"tag-magistrate","37":"tag-male","38":"tag-mallet","39":"tag-man","40":"tag-prosecution","41":"tag-punishment","42":"tag-rule","43":"tag-trial","44":"tag-tribunal","45":"tag-united-states","46":"tag-united-states-of-america","47":"tag-unitedstates","48":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","49":"tag-us","50":"tag-usa","51":"tag-verdict","52":"tag-wisdom","53":"tag-wooden"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}