Repeat Criminals Repeating Again

More SAFE-T Act failures, squarely on the doorstep of Porkulous and the democrats: 

• Roy Pughsley caught a break last year. The 53-year-old had nearly killed another homeless man with a box cutter inside a River North Walgreens. But instead of going to prison on an attempted murder charge, he pleaded guilty to aggravated battery and walked out with 30 months of probation.

  Three weeks later, he was arrested again. And then again. And again. In all, Pughsley has been arrested eight more times since taking that plea deal, according to CPD records, with allegations ranging from possessing a knife to threatening people with knives at Loop businesses. He has repeatedly missed court dates, cycled on and off electronic monitoring and had judges decline to detain him. In his latest arrest, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office linked him to an overnight burglary at the Macy’s flagship store on State Street.

Eight additional arrests, some of them violent felonies. He really need to run into a CCL holder one of these times, just to save taxpayers money.

And this one is irritating:

• The man Chicago police Officer Krystal Rivera was chasing when she was fatally shot by her partner last year has been indicted on charges of conspiring to traffic fentanyl and cocaine in Chicago, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.

  In June 2025, Rivera and Officer Carlos Baker chased Jaylin Arnold to a Chatham apartment, where Baker fired his gun, striking and killing Rivera. Arnold pleaded guilty to gun and drug charges in relation to Rivera’s death and was sentenced to eight years in prison in a plea deal — a sentence Rivera’s mother Yolanda Rivera called “extremely severe.”

  Arnold, 28, was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury for drug trafficking carried out with four other men between January and June of 2025, according to the indictment.

So is this a custodial investigation? Meaning he is currently in prison serving the eight years and managed to land an additional indictment for another case?

This part isn't surprising, but still pisses us off:

• Arnold was previously sentenced to seven years in prison after being convicted on gun charges in 2023, and has been sentenced to prison at least two other times for gun charges.

How about a "three strikes" law for repeat felons? This asshole is on his fourth (?) gun conviction and democrats (who are anti-anyone even owning a gun) can't bring themselves to apply the most severe punishments to someone who keeps violating existing gun laws.