{"id":283397,"date":"2026-05-25T07:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283397\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T07:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:46:09","slug":"jacksonville-man-jailed-without-bond-after-alleged-gun-threat-in-home-with-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283397\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville man jailed without bond after alleged gun threat in home with children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Onslow County \u2014 A Jacksonville man is facing multiple charges after warrants state he threatened a woman with a firearm while children were inside a home.<\/p>\n<p>According to warrants, 51-year-old Marlyn Sample was arrested Sunday, May 24, by the Jacksonville Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Sample is charged with possession of a firearm by a felon, misdemeanor crime of domestic violence and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.<\/p>\n<p>Warrants state Sample, a convicted felon, was allegedly in possession of a firearm after a 2010 conviction for assault by strangulation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jacksonville man jailed without bond after alleged gun threat in home with children\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bf54a88c-1c00-4c1a-8b28-16e5cb532dd2-onslowarrest.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville man jailed without bond after alleged gun threat in home with children<\/p>\n<p>Arrest records further allege Sample threatened to use a deadly weapon against a woman known to him.<\/p>\n<p>Warrants state he made remarks about killing her while walking around the home with a gun in his right hand.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said two children, an 11-month-old and a 3-year-old, were inside the home at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Warrants also state Sample \u201ccaused, encouraged and aided\u201d the children to be in a place where they could be adjudicated delinquent.<\/p>\n<p>Sample was taken to the Onslow County Jail, where he remains without bond.<\/p>\n<p>He is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday, May 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Onslow County \u2014 A Jacksonville man is facing multiple charges after warrants state he threatened a woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-283397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283397","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=283397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}