JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 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":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Jacksonville man has pleaded guilty after robbing a hotel with a firearm, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6275,9689,4204,694,32909,7330,9691,558,3974,4033,8219,12627,9693,265,3977,7920,1327,9694,9695,2161,3980,9696,16783,9697,116,118,117,2785,57561,9698,9699,9701,97919,3985,712,9702,3986,84293,128,9703,9704,718,9705,3993,44453,4001,9708,1934,32911,9709,9710,9711],"class_list":["post-217437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-attorney","tag-auction","tag-authority","tag-background","tag-barrister","tag-book","tag-brown","tag-business","tag-concept","tag-constitution","tag-court","tag-courthouse","tag-courtroom","tag-crime","tag-criminal","tag-decision","tag-document","tag-equality","tag-gavel","tag-government","tag-guilt","tag-hammer","tag-horizontal","tag-innocence","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-judge","tag-judgement","tag-judgment","tag-judicial","tag-juridical","tag-jurisdiction","tag-justice","tag-law","tag-lawyer","tag-legal","tag-legal-system","tag-legislation","tag-litigation","tag-mallet","tag-order","tag-prosecution","tag-punishment","tag-right","tag-symbol","tag-system","tag-trial","tag-tribunal","tag-verdict","tag-wood","tag-wooden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217437","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=217437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}