PANAMA CITY — A 21-year-old man discovered with a bounty of cash and cigarettes he acquired in an armed robbery has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, according to court documents.
Jessie Floyd, of Panama City, was sentenced Monday for a March 2014 robbery of a Panama City gas station at knifepoint. Floyd represented himself during the trial of the case before jurors convicted him of robbery with a deadly weapon and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, court records indicate.
Circuit Judge Brantley Clark Jr. sentenced Jessie Floyd on Monday to 25 years in prison for an armed robbery of a Panama City Texaco.
Assistant State Attorney Christine Smallwood took Floyd to trial May 13, where he was found guilty as charged of robbery with a deadly weapon and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
On March 10, 2014, Floyd robbed a clerk at knifepoint at the Texaco on 11th Street and Florida Avenue. According to police records, Floyd ordered the clerk to empty the cash register into a bag at knifepoint at about 6 a.m. that day. As she did, he grabbed several packs of cigarettes off the shelf and then fled the store on foot.
She called police as he fled, relaying the course of his travel to a 911 operator.
Floyd was found minutes after the robbery, within a few blocks of the Texaco, with the gloves and kitchen knife used in the robbery, as well as $486 stuffed in a black plastic bag and several packs of unopened cigarettes.
Clark sentenced him to 25 years in prison for the robbery charge and five years in prison for the aggravated assault, but ordered the sentences to be served at the same time.
