{"id":135539,"date":"2024-08-20T11:06:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T15:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=135539"},"modified":"2024-08-20T11:06:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T15:06:18","slug":"tampa-man-pleads-guilty-to-gas-station-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=135539","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Man Pleads Guilty To Gas Station Robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-135543\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Brandale-Swails.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Brandale-Swails.jpg 320w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Brandale-Swails-148x160.jpg 148w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>BRANDALE SWAILS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">United States <strong>Attorney Roger B. Handberg<\/strong> said that <strong>Brandale Swails<\/strong>, 29, of Tampa, has pleaded guilty to brandishing a firearm during the commission of a Hobbs Act Robbery. <strong>Swails<\/strong> faces a minimum mandatory sentence of seven years, up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for November 7, 2024.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to court documents, <strong>Swails <\/strong>arrived at a gas station on a bicycle, entered the business, pointed a gun at a clerk, and demanded money. The employee immediately hid behind the counter. <strong>Swails<\/strong> jumped over the counter towards the clerk while continuing to point the firearm at him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Swails<\/strong> then stated he would shoot the clerk if he did not open the register. <strong>Swails <\/strong>continued to hold the victim at gunpoint while directing him into a bathroom. <strong>Swails <\/strong>then exited the business and fled on a bicycle. <strong>Swails<\/strong> was arrested two weeks later, hiding inside a bedroom closet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRANDALE SWAILS United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg said that Brandale Swails, 29, of Tampa, has pleaded guilty to brandishing a firearm during the commission of a Hobbs Act Robbery. Swails faces a minimum mandatory sentence of seven years, up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for November 7, 2024. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135551,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135539\/revisions\/135551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}