7-month-old baby was pepper-sprayed during robbery
You can bet your life that had he been convicted before Gov. Moonbeam’s realignment went into effect, this robber, who had no regard whatsoever for the safety of an infant, would have been sent to prison in a hot New York minute.
ROBBER WHO PEPPER-SPRAYED INFANT CONVICTED
Pled no contest to charges of robbery and child abuse after June crime
By Jim Schultz
Record Searchlight
July 19, 2012
REDDING, Calif. — A Redding man pleaded no contest Tuesday in Shasta County Superior Court to robbing and pepper-spraying a smoke shop clerk who was holding a 7-month-old baby.
Thomas Lynn Arnett, 23, pleaded no contest to robbery and child abuse, which was reduced to a misdemeanor, in connection with the June 27 robbery at Smoker's Paradise on Hilltop Drive in Redding.
Arnett, who was arrested July 3 in the Walmart parking lot on Dana Drive, remains in Shasta County jail with bail set at $ 500,000.
He is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 14.
Arnett faced a maximum of seven years in prison if tried and convicted of the original charges against him.
But under the terms of the plea bargain, Arnett would not serve any time in prison.
Instead, he would serve up to a year in Shasta County jail and would be on probation for four years afterward.
The case has been turned over to county probation officials to interview Arnett and then provide a sentencing recommendation for Superior Court Judge Dan Flynn to consider at next month's sentencing.
Arnett was charged with robbing the smoke shop and pepperspraying Gurmit Singh, 35, who was holding his baby.
Police have said Arnett stole cigarettes, a glass pipe and a "psychoactive designer drug" called "spice" or "synthetic marijuana."
Singh and his baby were irritated by the pepper spray but didn't need medical treatment, police have said.
Arnett won't be sent to prison.
1 comment:
They should pepper spray him every day just before lights out, just to remind him it isn't nice.
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