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A Jacksonville man has pleaded guilty after robbing a hotel with a firearm, according to federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n
Denzel Demoree\u2019a Prince, 28, admitted to the robbery and to using a gun during the crime.<\/p>\n
He now faces a minimum of 7 years in prison and could get a life sentence, plus 20 years.<\/p>\n
Investigators say this happened on September 8, 2025, at a hotel in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Prince first walked up to the front desk asking for money back from a vending machine.<\/p>\n The employee told him he\u2019d have to come back in the morning, and Prince left. But a few minutes later, he came back.<\/p>\n This time, authorities say he was wearing a camouflage-style mask and had a gun.<\/p>\n Security cameras show him pointing the weapon at the employee, then throwing a brick through a window to get inside.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n From there, he climbed in, went behind the front desk, and grabbed cash from the register before running out the back door.<\/p>\n Officers later identified Prince and searched his home. Investigators say they found clothes that matched what he was wearing during the robbery.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Jacksonville man has pleaded guilty after robbing a hotel with a firearm, according to federal prosecutors. Denzel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98047,34917,761,116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-214915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-denzel-demoreea-prince","9":"tag-federal-prosecutors","10":"tag-free-action-news-jax","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","13":"tag-jacksonville-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214915","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=214915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}