JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Jacksonville man with a lengthy criminal record is heading to federal prison for more than 11 years after being caught with a gun and cocaine.
Malcolm Jewell Williams, 39, was sentenced after a jury found him guilty last July.
Williams, who has 16 felony convictions and two domestic violence misdemeanors, was already banned from having guns.
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Officials say he tried to sell drugs to an undercover officer at a local gas station, then ran from cops before being caught near a palm tree, where they found a loaded gun.
Officers also found cocaine and a scale with drug residue on him.
After being taken to jail, Williams managed to slip out of his cuffs and tried to escape again, but police caught him a second time.
At the time of his arrest, he was already out on bond for a meth bust in Georgia just months earlier.
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