SEBRING — An Avon Park teenager who told authorities he robbed a convenience store clerk to get money to pay his $500 probation fine will spend the next 10 years in prison, a judge decided this week.
“I felt like I needed the money to, you know, pay off my probation and stuff,” Jalen Williams told a Highlands County Sheriff’s Office investigator earlier this year. He also said he used some of the money from the robbery to buy marijuana and then planned to sell it to make more money.
At the time Williams robbed the convenience store, he was on probation for having committed robbery in 2013.