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.
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.
Labels: crime
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
19 Comments:
All by design.
This critter is doing the work that the Bosses want done. Attacking the civilians to make them cry to be controlled even harder.
I'm a suspicious b*stard. I look for who benefits or profits from an action affecting the public, rather than who is blamed for it.
John in Indy
It's happening everywhere. Oklahoma City keeps releasing an illegal back on the street despite assaults on women numbering in the high teens. It has to have a purpose, and I can only think it has to do with hate for a polite society, polite society of course being white privilege....
The CCSAO is a huge part of the problem with repeat offenders.
If you’re going to approve charges for serious crimes STOP letting these assholes plea to a lesser included offense. Drop the hammer and watch the criminals in Cook County take notice. Seriously , you charge a Class X attempt murder (6-30 year sentence) and hand out probation?
Total joke. Either the attorneys that are employed as prosecutors are either lazy or incompetent or both.
Democrats love their criminals.
100% correct.
There's a "third rail" that frequently gets over-looked - the jury. Even if you can draw an aggressive ASA and a sober jurist, are you sure you can find enough OBJECTIVE citizens to impanel an impartial jury in/from Cook County given the reduction of societal standards?
Give them both the death sentence
Fed could have adopted the last one and hit him with 7yrs. Seems that the problem is, districts rarely reach out to get the feds rolling. Same with the full auto switch cases. 10yrs to start on those
The plan is working perfectly
It's the democratic way...
Again, unless and until a person or group of “importance” is harmed grievously this shall continue. It’s only peons and paupers paying the freight of rampant crime, mayhem, and murder. (Root beer thrown on an important person rated real justice, eh?)
The Pentagon is defending the safety of M17 and M18 handguns — military versions of the controversial SIG Sauer P320 — saying that “there has never been a mechanically caused accidental discharge” involving the service weapon.
The left wants society to devolve to a point where, when in power, they suspend the constitution and implement their vision of a true socialist utopia.
Cradle to grave is the liberal dream.
You can get decent jurors, but you also have less corruption in the judiciary. Crook County Judges are worthless. Vote them out of office.
Re: 9:32:36 AM-
I think about this every time SCC commentary rips on those who “couldn’t get out of Jury Duty”.
When you know if any elected US officials proposed eliminating Trial by Jury these same fools would lose their minds with anger.
Yep, remember Charles Percy?
How about three strikes a you get the rope ?
Fuck this city and its liberal democRATS I hope they all suffer and IDGAF
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