Gainesville man found guilty of robbery after pattern of crime since 1983
Press release from the State Attorney 8th Judicial Circuit
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – On Tuesday, November 8, 2022, Assistant State Attorney Britanee Prince led the prosecution team in State vs. Darrell Lavonne Chambers.
On August 13, 2020, The Gainesville Police Department arrested Darrell Chambers, dob 9/20/1963, following a robbery with a deadly weapon. Gainesville Police Officers responded to Winn Dixie Grocery Stores for a subject that routinely shoplifts in their store. Employees confronted Chambers and he produced a folding knife from his pants pocket, ordering the employees to move out of his way. After a two-day trial, an Alachua County Jury deliberated for over an hour and found Chambers guilty of robbery with a deadly weapon. Chambers’s first prison sentence was in 1984 for burglary and assault, and he has a dozen similar convictions.
The Honorable Judge Mark W. Moseley presided over the judicial proceeding. Chambers was sentenced to 15 years in the Florida Department of Corrections.
Only 15 years?? That crime is punishable by LIFE, and he has clearly earned a life sentence!!
I know, right?! But hey, accept the miracle of his 15 year sentence especially this being Alachua County.
15 years which will likely turn out to be closer to 15 months….and….then back to his criminal ways.
Lou. He will have to 85% of the 15 years mandatory unless the law changes. They’ve been talking about reducing the 85 % the 65 % for a while now. It’ll probably not change now that thankfully we are a red state.
Disturbing🧔🏿 nearly 😳 entire life doing crimes,now the next 15 years prison…3 meals a day, medical,out of weather elements, 59years old….Disturbing gods little 😈demon 👿 .
Was he getting free section 8 rent from a lawyer-landlord, by chance? At any time over those years? Wanna bet?
Probably was paying his rent and light bill and I’m out doing what’s right working on a legitimate job and I can’t even get help they’d rather help people who don’t want help and I bet he got a check
He chose to be a criminal. Now he has to deal with his fate. But some of the comments sound racist