{"id":357945,"date":"2026-07-30T19:33:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357945\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T19:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:33:45","slug":"man-convicted-in-2020-shooting-involving-miami-police-detective-sentenced-to-13-years-in-prison-as-part-of-plea-deal-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357945\/","title":{"rendered":"Man convicted in 2020 shooting involving Miami Police detective sentenced to 13 years in prison as part of plea deal &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; One of three men accused of trying to kill a City of Miami Police officer learned his fate in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wilkhari Levale Jones, a co-defendant in the 2020 ambush and shooting, was sentenced Thursday to 13 years in state prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI find you guilty. I adjudicate you guilty, and I sentence you to 13 years in state prison,\u201d said Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Laura Maria Gonzalez-Marques.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sentence for the 25-year-old, who was the only defendant left with an open case, was part of a plea deal he took.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jones was arrested after the <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/3-in-custody-3-at-large-following-police-involved-shooting-in-miami\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">April 24, 2020 shooting<\/a> following a traffic stop near the intersection of Northwest 50th Street and 22nd Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigators said several men fired several shots at an unmarked unit, Inside the vehicle was Miami Police Detective Erica Socarras,<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Socarras was not hurt, but ger vehicle was riddled with bullets, and a round hit her gun belt. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police arrested Jones, <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/miami-dade\/man-accused-of-shooting-at-miami-police-officer-in-2020-pleads-guilty-takes-plea-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Antranard Womble<\/a> and Wilzavier Le\u2019Varick Jones. The two other defendants also took plea deals with prison time earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inside the courtroom Thursday, 7News cameras captured several Miami Police officers seated as Gonzalez-Marques read Jones\u2019 sentence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cToday we\u2019re here in a show of unity to show the community that these types of acts, these types of behaviors towards any law enforcement officer, in this particular case one of ours, is not going to be tolerated,\u201d said Miami Police Deputy Chief Al Guerra.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All three men have been in jail since they were arrested in 2020. They are receiving credit for the time they have already served.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; One of three men accused of trying to kill a City of Miami Police officer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-357945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357945","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=357945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}