Kan. man gets 17 years for trying to rob ATF agent
Published on -3/9/2010, 3:29 PM
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- A Topeka man who was shot while trying to rob a federal agent last year has been sentenced to 17 years in prison.
Prosecutors say 29-year-old Antoine Cardin Williams pleaded guilty to distributing crack cocaine, aggravated robbery of a federal agent, aggravated assault on a federal agent and two firearms charges.
Williams admitted that on March 26, 2009, he and an accomplice went to a Topeka motel, where they planned to sell cocaine and a handgun. The person they sold to was an undercover agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Officials say Williams held the agent at gunpoint while his accomplice, Phillip Tyrone Williams, searched the agent and took his gun. Williams was shot when federal agents stormed the room to help the other agent.
