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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. |