JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Gainesville man has pleaded guilty in a series of armed robberies, including two in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors say 49-year-old Michael Woulard admitted he carried out the robberies and used a gun to threaten employees.<\/p>\n
One of the Jacksonville robberies happened at a Value Pawn shop, where nearly $46,000 worth of items were taken.<\/p>\n
[DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n Investigators also say he robbed a Kay Jewelers store in Jacksonville, where he pointed a gun at employees and stole more than $350,000 in jewelry.<\/p>\n Another robbery happened at a Kay Jewelers in Ocala, where more than $360,000 in jewelry was taken.<\/p>\n Authorities say Woulard was arrested the next day and later admitted to the crimes.<\/p>\n Prosecutors say a second person, Erica Jordan Patrick, also pleaded guilty after helping plan the Jacksonville Kay Jewelers robbery by scouting the store and identifying items to target.<\/p>\n Woulard faces a minimum of 14 years in prison and could be sentenced to life.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Gainesville man has pleaded guilty in a series of armed robberies, including two in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":625015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,12854,38545,13257,91776,29664,281,4219,8140,41881,3188,723,10767,40900,12651,15191,40901,7310,6616,24985,39800,24717,72700,8142,3228,12846,4630,2934,72702,58380,40906,125,36700,49453,72704,443,12433,91777,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,311,5953],"class_list":["post-674117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-america","tag-attorney","tag-auction","tag-authority","tag-barrister","tag-concept","tag-court","tag-crime","tag-criminal","tag-decisions","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-gavel","tag-guilt","tag-guilty","tag-hammer","tag-innocence","tag-jacksonville","tag-judge","tag-judgement","tag-judges","tag-judgment","tag-judicial","tag-justice","tag-law","tag-lawyer","tag-legal","tag-legislation","tag-mallet","tag-prosecution","tag-punishment","tag-rights","tag-rule","tag-sentence","tag-symbol","tag-system","tag-trial","tag-tribunal","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-verdict","tag-wood"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674117","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=674117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}