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Crazy Arnold Gets a Crazy Jail Sentence
posted (May 6, 2013)
29 year-old Michael "Crazy" Arnold is at prison tonight serving a 12 year prison sentence after he was convicted of rape in 2011. Well, he's getting 15 years added on to his prison time because he pleaded guilty to a second rape charge today.

His female victim, who was 29 year-old at the time, told police that at around 10 p.m. on September 18, 2010, Arnold, who she knew for a month, entered her apartment and put a gun to her head. He ordered her to perform oral sex on him.

She said that she refused and that's when he pulled her on to a bed, grabbed a machete and put it to her neck threatening to chop her to death if she didn't cooperate. With that machete to her throat, Arnold raped her.

That case was called up today before Justice Adolph Lucas, and Arnold took the opportunity to change his plea to guilty. He begged the court to consider handing him a sentence which would run concurrently with his current 12 year sentence, 2 years of which he has already served.

Justice Lucas accepted that plea, and sentenced him to an additional 15 years which will run concurrently with this current sentence despite to his previous conviction and his very long rap sheet. As a result, he has 15 years more in prison which he must serve.

Arnold was convicted of rape in May of 2011 which he committed against a 15 year-old girl in December of 2009.

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