{"id":186572,"date":"2026-03-11T01:21:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186572\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T01:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:21:48","slug":"man-sentenced-to-45-years-for-shooting-girlfriend-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186572\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to 45 years for shooting girlfriend in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY., FLA. \u2014 A 17-time convicted felon was sentenced to 45 years in prison on Monday for shooting his girlfriend in Tampa in March of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>A jury found Jesse Powell, 50, guilty of attempted manslaughter by act with a weapon and felony battery with a weapon after he shot his girlfriend while she was sleeping in her bed on March 31. <\/p>\n<p>Powell also pleaded guilty to felon in possession of a firearm. <\/p>\n<p>Each charge carried a maximum of 15 years in prison. The judge sentenced him to 15 years on each count to be served consecutively, which equaled a total of 45 years behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>Powell is a 17-time convicted felon, according to the Hillsborough County State Attorney\u2019s Office, 13th Judicial Circuit.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant State Attorneys Kaley Darrigo and Will Warmke successfully prosecuted this case.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KATIE.LAGRONE.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Florida man spends more fighting school bus camera ticket than the fine itself<\/p>\n<p>A Florida driver is spending more money fighting a school bus camera ticket than the violation itself is worth, and he says it&#8217;s a matter of principle.<\/p>\n<p>Florida man spends more fighting school bus camera ticket than the fine itself<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY., FLA. \u2014 A 17-time convicted felon was sentenced to 45 years in prison on Monday for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[87632,205,10706,276,87633,2373,215,135,3670,137,136,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-186572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-45-years","9":"tag-abc-action-news","10":"tag-girlfriend","11":"tag-hillsborough-county","12":"tag-jesse-powell","13":"tag-sentenced","14":"tag-shooting","15":"tag-tampa","16":"tag-tampa-bay-local-news","17":"tag-tampa-headlines","18":"tag-tampa-news","19":"tag-wfts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186572","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=186572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}