A profession prison who allegedly kidnapped a mother and her two younger youngsters and compelled them at knifepoint to assist him rob a Kentucky financial institution was launched from jail only a 12 months earlier after a Democrat-appointed decide granted him so-called “shock probation.”
Armond Langford, 32, allegedly broke into the household’s east Louisville dwelling on Friday and compelled the girl to drive him to a financial institution, the place he demanded $20,000 from a teller working the drive-thru, based on native reviews.
Langford, who held a knife to the girl’s throat through the terrifying ordeal, then stabbed the mother within the stomach and ran off, main police on an hours-long manhunt earlier than he was arrested, WHAS11 reported.
Father Brandon Sturdy spoke of his disbelief and anger after studying that Langford had been sentenced to 14 years in jail simply final 12 months after he was convicted of practically a dozen theft prices.
He was then sprung by Choose Jessica Inexperienced — who was appointed as a Jefferson County Circuit Courtroom decide by Kentucky’s Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear — simply 5 months later in July 2024.
“It’s unbelievable that this was allowed to occur,” Sturdy informed “Fox & Associates.” “This was not a man operating pink lights.”
Inexperienced reduce the profession prison unfastened on “shock probation,” which supplies offenders a second probability after they spend a short while behind bars. The concept is that the time spent in jail will shock them and deter them from committing crimes sooner or later.
“The entire total judicial system that made this resolution must go away,” Sturdy stated. “How would that [shock probation] be an possibility for somebody that’s a violent prison?”
Langford was arrested on Friday afternoon, hours after the alleged theft and knife assault, in Lyndon, east of Louisville.
He faces a number of prices together with theft, kidnapping and assault, WLKY reviews.
