Julio Foolio Killers Sentenced to Life, Terrion Arnold Kidnapping Charges, Carlos Mencia Tax Case

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, and welcome to Daily Crime Injustice. I'm Garrett Fisher. It is Monday, July sixth, twenty twenty six, and I hope you and yours had a good Fourth of July weekend. We took you across the pond last week, a whole run of British cases for the holiday, which, if you think about it, is a very American thing to do. But the courts here didn't take the weekend off, and neither did the fallout from some verdicts that landed while you were at the barbecue. So let's catch up four stories today, a sentencing we've been building towards since last fall. The men who killed Julio Fulio finally learned where they're going to spend the rest of their lives, and what they had to say on the way out is going to stick with you. Then a Detroit Lions cornerback accused of running a kidnapping like a coach calling plays from the sideline you've laughed at for twenty years, telling a judge he's flat broke, and a comedian whose punchline turned out to be an eight figure tax bill.

1:07 Let's get into it. If you've been riding with us since October, you know this one. And if you're new, let me tell you about Charles Jones first, because he was a person long before he was a headline. Twenty six years old, a rapper from Jacksonville, Florida, who went by Juliofulio. He had a following, he had music people actually listened to, and on June twenty third of twenty twenty four, he traveled down to Tampa to do what any twenty six year old wants to do on their birthday, celebrate, perform, be around people. He didn't make it home. Three masked men open fire on vehicles outside a hotel. Charles Jones was killed. Three other people were wounded. That's who we're here for today, not the drill videos, not the online beef.

1:56 A young man who went to a party and got hunted. Last month, in a Tampa courtroom, the accounting finally came due. Four men, Isaiah Chance twenty three, Sean Gathright twenty and brothers Rashad Murphy thirty two and Davion Murphy twenty nine, were convicted of first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Gathright and both Murphy brothers were also convicted of three counts each of attempted murder for the people in those other cars. Prosecutors laid it out as the endgame of an ongoing gang war back in Jacksonville. These men knew Jones was coming to Tampa. They traveled together, they tracked him, and then they killed him. This wasn't a moment of heat.

2:37 It was a plan. Here's a thing we're sitting with. The same jury that convicted them also decided they should not be put to death. Florida still has the death penalty. Prosecutors were on the table for it, and twelve people looked at all of it and said, no, life not death. I'm not going to tell you how to feel about that. I'll just tell you it happened, and it meant that. When Judge Michelle Cisco handed down sentence, the number was life without the possibility of parole for chance. In both Murphy's that's a life sentence for the murder, another life sentence for the conspiracy, and for the Murphy brothers. Three more life sentences each for the attempted murders, all stacked one after another. Gathwright, who was eighteen when this happened, got life for the murder, plus thirty years a piece on the conspiracy and each attempted murder count consecutive. These men are not getting out. And then they spoke because in Florida, before your sentenced, you get to address the court.

3:39 And what these four men chose to do with that moment was turned to the camera and give advice to teenagers. Isaiah Chance said, and I'm quoting the sentiment here that the dissing and the beefing and the shooting aren't worth it. That when you're sitting in a cell, cold and alone, everybody leaves and the only person still there for you is your mother and maybe one friend. Davian Murphy, who maintains he's innocent, told what he called the gen Z generation to go do something productive because this predicament isn't worth it. Rashad Murphy just said he loves everybody. Look, I'm gonna be honest with you. There is something real in what Chance said. It is true the cell is cold and everybody does leave. If a sixteen year old in Jacksonville hears that and puts the gun down, then good.

4:28 Some scrap of value came out of this. But I want you to hold on to something while you listen to grown men counsel the youth. From the defendant's table, Charles Jones doesn't get to give a speech. His mother doesn't get to hear him say he loves everybody. The advice these men are offering is advice they refuse to take themselves. And they only found the wisdom after a jury took the rest of their lives. That's not a redemption arc. That's the bill coming due. Then Sean Gathwright stood up and his was a different kind of speech. He talked about how heartbreaking it is that an eighteen year old can't rent a car or a hotel room, can't buy alcohol, but can be sentenced to death or life without parole. He called himself a prime example. And here's where I have to be careful with you, because there are two things happening at once. Is there a real serious debate in this country about how we treat teenage brains in the criminal system. Yes, genuinely. Neuroscientists have things to say about an eighteen year old's capacity to weigh consequences, and it's not a frivolous conversation. But that is not the conversation Gathrte was having. He was using it standing at his own sentencing, convicted of a coordinated ambush, reframing himself as a kid failed by the system. That's not a policy argument, that's a defense strategy with no jury left to hear it. Both things can be true.

5:50 The debate is real, and his invocation of it was self serving. Don't let the second one erase the first. Judge Cisco called the longest, most intricate, most difficult case she'd handled in almost twenty four years on the bench, and she said something else. I want to flag for you because it sat wrong with me. She said Jones didn't deserve to die for the drill videos he made, but that going and degrading the gravesite of a murdered relative, in her words, increased his odds that this would happen. Now, I understand what she was reaching for, but I'm a victim first show, and I'm going to say this plainly.

6:31 Nothing Charles Jones posted nothing, he filmed, nothing, he said online. Put a legal target on his back. Four men made a choice to hunt him down. That's not a mistake, that's a choice. The grave site talk belongs in a sociology lecture about how these feuds escalate. It does not belong anywhere near the question of who's responsible for his death. The answer to that question is sitting in four prison cells. One more piece for the completest. You'll rem remember Alicia Andrews, Chance's girlfriend tried separately, whose case gave us all that drama earlier this year, when an appeals court pulled a judge off her sentencing. She was convicted of the lesser charge of manslaughter and sentenced to fifteen years. So that threat is tied off too. The Juliofulio case, the one we followed for the better part of a year, is essentially closed. Charles Jones is still gone, but nobody walked.

7:26 When we come back. A Detroit Lions cornerback, a first round draft pick accused of running a kidnapping by remote control. Prosecutors say he wasn't even in the room. They say he didn't have to be Stay with me. Terry and Arnold is twenty three years old. Two years ago, he was the twenty fourth pick in the first round of the NFL Draft out of the University of Alabama, and he spent two seasons as a cornerback for the Detroit Lions. As of last Monday, he's a free agent. The Lions released him, and he's sitting in a Florida jail on a one million dollar bond, having pleaded not guilty to three counts of kidnapping, three counts of armed robbery, plus conspiracy to kidnap and conspiracy to rob So let me tell you what prosecutors say happened, and let me be clear from the top that Arnold has denied all of it and is presumed innocent until a jury says otherwise.

8:27 The state's story starts back in early February, at an Airbnb in Largo, Florida, where Arnold was staying with a group of people. Somebody stole from them. Arnold called the police himself and reported that two hundred and forty five thousand dollars in property was taken. Other people in the house reported losses too, a few thousand here, one thousand there. So far, that's just a crime being committed against him. Here's where prosecutors say it goes off a cliff. They say Arnold and the people with him became convinced that two specific individuals were behind the theft and investigators say there's no evidence, none, that those people had anything to do with it. According to prosecutors, Arnold hatched a plan to have his co defendants lure the victims to an apartment supposedly to question them. Three people showed up. What they walked into the state says was a room full of men with guns, and for about an hour, Prosecutors say those three victims were beaten, threatened, and interrogated about a robbery they had nothing to do with. At one point, one of the co defendants allegedly put a gun in a victim's mouth. The victims were eventually walked out at gunpoint.

9:39 I'll stop the detail there. You get the gravity of it without me painting the whole picture. Now here's the part that makes this case what it is. Prosecutors say Arnold wasn't in that apartment, he wasn't in the room. He was somewhere else watching. They say one of his co defendants was streaming the whole thing live so Arnold could see it, and that Arnold was directing the operation by text message the entire time, calling the plays essentially from off site, and two of his co defendants have already admitted their roles. They've pleaded guilty to kidnapping and robbery. That's not nothing. When the people who were in the room start pleading guilty, the person accused of directing them has a very steep hill to climb. Here's what I keep coming back to. If the state's version holds up.

10:25 This is a man who called the police, who used the system correctly when he believed he'd been robbed, and then allegedly decided the system was too slow, appointed himself judge and jury picked two people the evidence doesn't even connect to the theft, and had them terrorized while he watched on a screen. There's a playbook for this, and it's the oldest one there is. I'll handle it myself. It almost never handles it. It just creates new victims. Arnold has denied these allegations, and he'll get his day in court. But a first round talent and a million dollar bond and a live stream do not usually end up in the same sentence unless something went very wrong. Coming up.

11:07 An actor you've watched every holiday season stands in front of a judge and says his last residual check was seven cents. Is he broke or is he hiding it, and then a comedian who never met a subject he wouldn't touch, facing eight point seven million reasons to stay quiet. Back in a moment, you know fais on Love, even if you don't know the name. He's fifty eight, he's been in movies for thirty years. He's in ELF, he's in Couple's Retreat, he's in the replacements, and last week he was in a Hillsborough County courtroom in custody asking a judge to let him out. This one is not a criminal case, and I want to draw that line clearly because it matters. This is a family court matter, a paternity and child support dispute with an ex in Florida.

12:03 Love was arrested out in California and extradited back to Florida over it. Nobody's accusing him of a crime. What the court is accusing him of is not paying and not being straight about why. Here's the not. Back in twenty twenty three, Love was ordered to pay a judgment in this paternity case. We're talking several hundred thousand dollars. The other side's attorney told the judge that Love has been earning real money doing comedy shows and simply hasn't been filing an honest financial affidavit, the sworn document that says here's what I make and here's what I have. Love's side tells a very different story. His attorney stood up and said, this man is broke, and then came the numbers, and I'll be honest, they're the kind of numbers you remember. Love said. His residual check last month, the money actors get when their old work airs, came to seven cents seven in January. He said it's spiked all the way up to about ten thousand dollars. His lawyer told the court Love has ninety nine dollars in his bank account, drives a nineteen ninety nine car, and lives rent free and a little casita at a friend's house who covers all his bills. His lawyer put it bluntly, since streaming took over, he said, the only actors still making real residual money are the ones from Friends in Seinfeld because those still run on regular TV. Everybody else is getting seven cent checks. And Love added his own theory for why he can't work. He says his ex's

13:35 attorney has been sending letters around demanding fifty five percent of whatever he earns, and that it's scaring off the people who'd hire him. So which is it? Here's the honest answer. I don't know, and neither does the judge yet, And that's exactly the problem. The whole fight is about a missing document. If Love had filed a complete, accurate financial affidavit, we wouldn't be having this conversation. The court would know what he has. The Judge, Mark Kaiser decided sixteen days in jail was punishment enough and ordered him released, but he gave Love a deadline to file those amended financial disclosures July first. Now here's where I have to level with you about timing. July first was last Tuesday.

14:20 It has come and gone. As we sit here this morning, I can't tell you whether he met that deadline, because that filing happens on the court schedule, not ours. If he did, this quiets down. If he didn't, he could be right back in front of Judge Kaiser. Either way, the lesson is boring and it's ironclad. In family court. The fastest way to look like you're hiding money is to refuse to show your paperwork, whether he has it or not. This whole mess is about the not showing and finally out to Los Angeles, Carlos Mencia, the comedian. Here's a guy who hosted Mind of Mensia on Comedy Central back in the two thousands. Pleaded not guilty this week to twelve felony tax related counts. And I want to say upfront, not guilty means not guilty. He's presumed innocent, and these are allegations that a jury has not tested.

15:19 Here's what the state is alleging. Prosecutors say Mencia failed to report eight point seven million dollars in personal and corporate income. They say he didn't file tax returns over a six year stretch, and that the state is out more than three hundred thousand dollars in unpaid taxes as a result. There's a detail here that tells you this is a moment, not just a case. This is the very first prosecution brought by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's brand new business tax fraud unit. They stood up a whole unit to go after this kind of thing, and Carlos Mencia is the name they chose to lead. With the prosecutor running that unit, Michelle Hannessey, made a point in court that his assets have been frozen, which practically meant Mencia couldn't even use his own money to post bond. It came out in that same hearing that his home is in foreclosure, his family is covering the bond to get him out. His bail was set at fifty thousand dollars and he's due back in court on August fourteen. Now, some of you know Mencia's name from something older, a long running accusation going back to a two thousand and seven confrontation with Joe Rogan at the comedy store that he lifted material from other comedians. I'll mention it because it's part of his story, but I'm going to be disciplined about it. That was a reputational fight in the comedy world. It was never a court case, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the charges he's facing now. One is old show business beef. The other is the state of California saying you didn't pay what you owed for six years. Don't let the first

16:50 color how you judge the second. That's for a jury on the evidence. But I'll leave you with the through line because there is one today. Look at the four stories, four men who decided the rules of their neighborhood mattered more than a young man's life. An athlete accused of deciding he was the law. An actor and a comedian each in a courtroom over a piece of paper they were supposed to file and allegedly didn't. Some of these are murder and some of these are math, but the thread running through all of them is the same. At some point, somebody decided the accounting didn't apply to them. It always does. Accountability doesn't have a legal department. It just waits. That's the show for today. If something in here landed with you, the Foolio sentencing, any of it, do me a favor and share this episode, Tell a friend, send it to somebody who follows these cases. Word of mouth is genuinely how a show like this grows, and it costs you nothing. And if you're listening on Spotify, drop a comment. Tell me what you think about those men lecturing teenagers from the defendant's table. I read them, and I want to hear where you land. We'll keep tracking the ones that are still open, and we've got the coury Richand's restitution here in coming at the end of the month. So We'll be back on that soon enough.

18:11 I'm Garrett Fisher. This has been daily crime and justice. Do better. I'll see you tomorrow. Legal disclaimer. This program covers active and recently concluded legal proceedings and is offered for news and commentary purposes. In the death of Charles Jones, known as Juliofulio, Isaiah Chance, Sean Gathwright, Rashad Murphy, and Davian Murphy were convicted and sentenced to life without parole and additional terms. The jury declined to recommend death. Davian Murphy maintains his innocence. Alicia Andrews was convicted of manslaughter in a separate trial and sentenced to fifteen years. Statements the defendants made it sentencing are their own and are noted here as self serving where relevant. Remarks attributed to the presiding judge regarding the victim's conduct are reported as said and do not reflect this program's v you that any conduct by Charles Jones bears on responsibility for his death.

19:05 Regarding Terry and Arnold, mister Arnold has pleaded not guilty to all charges, denies the allegations, and is presumed innocent. The account given is the prosecutions, it has not been tested at trial. References to co defendants guilty please are drawn from court records and do not establish mister Arnold's guilt. Regarding Fies on Love, this is a civil family court matter concerning paternity and child support, not a criminal case. Financial figures cited were stated by the parties in open court and have not been independently verified. His court ordered deadline to refile amended financial disclosures was July one, twenty twenty six. His compliance status was not confirmed as of this recording. Regarding Carlos Mensia, mister Mensia has pleaded not guilty to all counts and is presumed innocent. The reported income and tax figures are allegations by prosecutor. References to pass plagiarism. Accusations concern a non legal industry dispute remain unproven and are unrelated to the current charges. Details are current as of production and may change as proceedings continue