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 <<<<\/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: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/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":2,"featured_media":124959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18462,4204,694,32909,8219,12627,9693,265,3977,705,9695,3980,3981,9696,3982,9697,116,118,117,2785,9698,9699,3985,712,9702,3986,9703,32910,32114,9704,2391,9705,3993,4360,1934,32911,9709,32912,9711],"class_list":["post-124958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-adult","tag-authority","tag-background","tag-barrister","tag-court","tag-courthouse","tag-courtroom","tag-crime","tag-criminal","tag-enforcement","tag-gavel","tag-guilt","tag-guilty","tag-hammer","tag-hand","tag-innocence","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-judge","tag-judgment","tag-judicial","tag-justice","tag-law","tag-lawyer","tag-legal","tag-litigation","tag-magistrate","tag-male","tag-mallet","tag-man","tag-prosecution","tag-punishment","tag-rule","tag-trial","tag-tribunal","tag-verdict","tag-wisdom","tag-wooden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}