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: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/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: 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 Gainesville man has pleaded guilty in a series of armed robberies, including two in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6275,9689,4204,32909,3974,8219,265,3977,31391,9695,3980,3981,9696,9697,116,118,117,2785,57561,31394,9698,9699,3985,712,9702,3986,128,9704,9705,3993,9706,4360,39323,4001,9708,1934,32911,9709,9710],"class_list":["post-200530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-attorney","tag-auction","tag-authority","tag-barrister","tag-concept","tag-court","tag-crime","tag-criminal","tag-decisions","tag-gavel","tag-guilt","tag-guilty","tag-hammer","tag-innocence","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","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-verdict","tag-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200530","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=200530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}