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Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, and welcome to Daily Crime Injustice.
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I'm Garrett Fisher. It is Monday, July sixth, twenty twenty six,
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and I hope you and yours had a good Fourth
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of July weekend. We took you across the pond last week,
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a whole run of British cases for the holiday, which,
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if you think about it, is a very American thing
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to do. But the courts here didn't take the weekend off,
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and neither did the fallout from some verdicts that landed
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while you were at the barbecue. So let's catch up
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four stories today, a sentencing we've been building towards since
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last fall. The men who killed Julio Fulio finally learned
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where they're going to spend the rest of their lives,
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and what they had to say on the way out
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is going to stick with you. Then a Detroit Lions
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cornerback accused of running a kidnapping like a coach calling
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plays from the sideline you've laughed at for twenty years,
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telling a judge he's flat broke, and a comedian whose
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punchline turned out to be an eight figure tax bill.
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Let's get into it. If you've been riding with us
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since October, you know this one. And if you're new,
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let me tell you about Charles Jones first, because he
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was a person long before he was a headline. Twenty
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six years old, a rapper from Jacksonville, Florida, who went
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by Juliofulio. He had a following, he had music people
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actually listened to, and on June twenty third of twenty
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twenty four, he traveled down to Tampa to do what
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any twenty six year old wants to do on their birthday, celebrate, perform,
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be around people. He didn't make it home. Three masked
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men open fire on vehicles outside a hotel. Charles Jones
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was killed. Three other people were wounded. That's who we're
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here for today, not the drill videos, not the online beef.
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A young man who went to a party and got hunted.
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Last month, in a Tampa courtroom, the accounting finally came due.
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Four men, Isaiah Chance twenty three, Sean Gathright twenty and
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brothers Rashad Murphy thirty two and Davion Murphy twenty nine,
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were convicted of first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
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Gathright and both Murphy brothers were also convicted of three
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counts each of attempted murder for the people in those
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other cars. Prosecutors laid it out as the endgame of
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an ongoing gang war back in Jacksonville. These men knew
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Jones was coming to Tampa. They traveled together, they tracked him,
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and then they killed him. This wasn't a moment of heat.
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It was a plan. Here's a thing we're sitting with.
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The same jury that convicted them also decided they should
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not be put to death. Florida still has the death penalty.
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Prosecutors were on the table for it, and twelve people
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looked at all of it and said, no, life not death.
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I'm not going to tell you how to feel about that.
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I'll just tell you it happened, and it meant that.
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When Judge Michelle Cisco handed down sentence, the number was
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life without the possibility of parole for chance. In both
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Murphy's that's a life sentence for the murder, another life
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sentence for the conspiracy, and for the Murphy brothers. Three
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more life sentences each for the attempted murders, all stacked
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one after another. Gathwright, who was eighteen when this happened,
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got life for the murder, plus thirty years a piece
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on the conspiracy and each attempted murder count consecutive. These
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men are not getting out. And then they spoke because
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in Florida, before your sentenced, you get to address the court.
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And what these four men chose to do with that
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moment was turned to the camera and give advice to teenagers.
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Isaiah Chance said, and I'm quoting the sentiment here that
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the dissing and the beefing and the shooting aren't worth it.
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That when you're sitting in a cell, cold and alone,
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everybody leaves and the only person still there for you
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is your mother and maybe one friend. Davian Murphy, who
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maintains he's innocent, told what he called the gen Z
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generation to go do something productive because this predicament isn't
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worth it. Rashad Murphy just said he loves everybody. Look,
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I'm gonna be honest with you. There is something real
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in what Chance said. It is true the cell is
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cold and everybody does leave. If a sixteen year old
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in Jacksonville hears that and puts the gun down, then good.
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Some scrap of value came out of this. But I
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want you to hold on to something while you listen
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to grown men counsel the youth. From the defendant's table,
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Charles Jones doesn't get to give a speech. His mother
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doesn't get to hear him say he loves everybody. The
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advice these men are offering is advice they refuse to
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take themselves. And they only found the wisdom after a
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jury took the rest of their lives. That's not a
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redemption arc. That's the bill coming due. Then Sean Gathwright
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stood up and his was a different kind of speech.
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He talked about how heartbreaking it is that an eighteen
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year old can't rent a car or a hotel room,
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can't buy alcohol, but can be sentenced to death or
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life without parole. He called himself a prime example. And
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here's where I have to be careful with you, because
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there are two things happening at once. Is there a
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real serious debate in this country about how we treat
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teenage brains in the criminal system. Yes, genuinely. Neuroscientists have
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things to say about an eighteen year old's capacity to
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weigh consequences, and it's not a frivolous conversation. But that
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is not the conversation Gathrte was having. He was using
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it standing at his own sentencing, convicted of a coordinated ambush,
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reframing himself as a kid failed by the system. That's
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not a policy argument, that's a defense strategy with no
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jury left to hear it. Both things can be true.
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The debate is real, and his invocation of it was
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self serving. Don't let the second one erase the first.
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Judge Cisco called the longest, most intricate, most difficult case
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she'd handled in almost twenty four years on the bench,
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and she said something else. I want to flag for
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you because it sat wrong with me. She said Jones
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didn't deserve to die for the drill videos he made,
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but that going and degrading the gravesite of a murdered relative,
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in her words, increased his odds that this would happen. Now,
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I understand what she was reaching for, but I'm a
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victim first show, and I'm going to say this plainly.
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Nothing Charles Jones posted nothing, he filmed, nothing, he said online.
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Put a legal target on his back. Four men made
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a choice to hunt him down. That's not a mistake,
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that's a choice. The grave site talk belongs in a
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sociology lecture about how these feuds escalate. It does not
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belong anywhere near the question of who's responsible for his death.
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The answer to that question is sitting in four prison cells.
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One more piece for the completest. You'll rem remember Alicia Andrews,
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Chance's girlfriend tried separately, whose case gave us all that
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drama earlier this year, when an appeals court pulled a
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judge off her sentencing. She was convicted of the lesser
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charge of manslaughter and sentenced to fifteen years. So that
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threat is tied off too. The Juliofulio case, the one
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we followed for the better part of a year, is
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essentially closed. Charles Jones is still gone, but nobody walked.
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When we come back. A Detroit Lions cornerback, a first
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round draft pick accused of running a kidnapping by remote control.
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Prosecutors say he wasn't even in the room. They say
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he didn't have to be Stay with me. Terry and
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Arnold is twenty three years old. Two years ago, he
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was the twenty fourth pick in the first round of
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the NFL Draft out of the University of Alabama, and
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he spent two seasons as a cornerback for the Detroit Lions.
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As of last Monday, he's a free agent. The Lions
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released him, and he's sitting in a Florida jail on
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a one million dollar bond, having pleaded not guilty to
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three counts of kidnapping, three counts of armed robbery, plus
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conspiracy to kidnap and conspiracy to rob So let me
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tell you what prosecutors say happened, and let me be
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clear from the top that Arnold has denied all of
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it and is presumed innocent until a jury says otherwise.
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The state's story starts back in early February, at an
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Airbnb in Largo, Florida, where Arnold was staying with a
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group of people. Somebody stole from them. Arnold called the
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police himself and reported that two hundred and forty five
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thousand dollars in property was taken. Other people in the
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house reported losses too, a few thousand here, one thousand there.
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So far, that's just a crime being committed against him.
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Here's where prosecutors say it goes off a cliff. They
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say Arnold and the people with him became convinced that
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two specific individuals were behind the theft and investigators say
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there's no evidence, none, that those people had anything to
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do with it. According to prosecutors, Arnold hatched a plan
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to have his co defendants lure the victims to an
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apartment supposedly to question them. Three people showed up. What
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they walked into the state says was a room full
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of men with guns, and for about an hour, Prosecutors
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say those three victims were beaten, threatened, and interrogated about
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a robbery they had nothing to do with. At one point,
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one of the co defendants allegedly put a gun in
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a victim's mouth. The victims were eventually walked out at gunpoint.
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I'll stop the detail there. You get the gravity of
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it without me painting the whole picture. Now here's the
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part that makes this case what it is. Prosecutors say
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Arnold wasn't in that apartment, he wasn't in the room.
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He was somewhere else watching. They say one of his
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co defendants was streaming the whole thing live so Arnold
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could see it, and that Arnold was directing the operation
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by text message the entire time, calling the plays essentially
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from off site, and two of his co defendants have
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already admitted their roles. They've pleaded guilty to kidnapping and robbery.
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That's not nothing. When the people who were in the
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room start pleading guilty, the person accused of directing them
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has a very steep hill to climb. Here's what I
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keep coming back to. If the state's version holds up.
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This is a man who called the police, who used
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the system correctly when he believed he'd been robbed, and
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then allegedly decided the system was too slow, appointed himself
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judge and jury picked two people the evidence doesn't even
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connect to the theft, and had them terrorized while he watched
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on a screen. There's a playbook for this, and it's
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the oldest one there is. I'll handle it myself. It
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almost never handles it. It just creates new victims. Arnold
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has denied these allegations, and he'll get his day in court.
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But a first round talent and a million dollar bond
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and a live stream do not usually end up in
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the same sentence unless something went very wrong. Coming up.
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An actor you've watched every holiday season stands in front
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of a judge and says his last residual check was
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seven cents. Is he broke or is he hiding it,
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and then a comedian who never met a subject he
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wouldn't touch, facing eight point seven million reasons to stay quiet.
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Back in a moment, you know fais on Love, even
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if you don't know the name. He's fifty eight, he's
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been in movies for thirty years. He's in ELF, he's
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in Couple's Retreat, he's in the replacements, and last week
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he was in a Hillsborough County courtroom in custody asking
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a judge to let him out. This one is not
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a criminal case, and I want to draw that line
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clearly because it matters. This is a family court matter,
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a paternity and child support dispute with an ex in Florida.
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Love was arrested out in California and extradited back to
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Florida over it. Nobody's accusing him of a crime. What
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the court is accusing him of is not paying and
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not being straight about why. Here's the not. Back in
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twenty twenty three, Love was ordered to pay a judgment
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in this paternity case. We're talking several hundred thousand dollars.
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The other side's attorney told the judge that Love has
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been earning real money doing comedy shows and simply hasn't
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been filing an honest financial affidavit, the sworn document that
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says here's what I make and here's what I have.
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Love's side tells a very different story. His attorney stood
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up and said, this man is broke, and then came
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the numbers, and I'll be honest, they're the kind of
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numbers you remember. Love said. His residual check last month,
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the money actors get when their old work airs, came
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to seven cents seven in January. He said it's spiked
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all the way up to about ten thousand dollars. His
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lawyer told the court Love has ninety nine dollars in
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his bank account, drives a nineteen ninety nine car, and
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lives rent free and a little casita at a friend's
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house who covers all his bills. His lawyer put it bluntly,
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since streaming took over, he said, the only actors still
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making real residual money are the ones from Friends in
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Seinfeld because those still run on regular TV. Everybody else
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is getting seven cent checks. And Love added his own
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theory for why he can't work. He says his ex's
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attorney has been sending letters around demanding fifty five percent
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of whatever he earns, and that it's scaring off the
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people who'd hire him. So which is it? Here's the
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honest answer. I don't know, and neither does the judge yet,
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And that's exactly the problem. The whole fight is about
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a missing document. If Love had filed a complete, accurate
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financial affidavit, we wouldn't be having this conversation. The court
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would know what he has. The Judge, Mark Kaiser decided
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sixteen days in jail was punishment enough and ordered him released,
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but he gave Love a deadline to file those amended
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financial disclosures July first. Now here's where I have to
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level with you about timing. July first was last Tuesday.
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It has come and gone. As we sit here this morning,
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I can't tell you whether he met that deadline, because
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that filing happens on the court schedule, not ours. If
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he did, this quiets down. If he didn't, he could
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be right back in front of Judge Kaiser. Either way,