FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


August 29, 2007

Man sentenced to 25 years for robbery of Campbelton Store

State Attorney Steve Meadows announces the sentence, in Jackson County Circuit Court, of Jimmy Prather, to 25 years in prison for Robbery with a Firearm.

Prather, BM, DOB: 7-20-1962, 598 Martin Luther King Blvd., Chipley, entered a plea to the January 25, 2007, armed robbery of the BP Store in Campbelton. Prather used a handgun to take an unknown sum of money from the female clerk at the store just south of the Alabama line. He fled the scene and was apprehended on April 5, 2007.

The sentence includes a 10-year minimum mandatory term. Florida law requires that an inmate serve at least 85 per cent of his sentence. Prather could be eligible for release in 2028.