Man Gets 15 Years For Robbing Sleeping Victim

August 9, 2013

An Escambia County man has been sentenced to prison for robbing sleeping man last year.

Arion Goble was sentenced by Judge Ross Goodman to 15 years in state prison for robbery with a firearm wearing a mask, burglary of a dwelling armed with a firearm wearing a mask and grand theft wearing a mask. Goble was convicted by an Escambia County jury last month.

On August  10, 2012, Arion Goble and Jeffery Pruitt entered into the victim’s apartment with masks over their faces. They both entered the bedroom and awoke the sleeping victim.  Goble forced the victim to the ground and held a shotgun to his head. Pruitt then searched the bedroom and stole $800.  Afterwards, both Goble and Pruitt fled the scene and split the money. Both Pruitt and Goble made admissions to other persons shortly after the crime. Goble was identified by the victim due to a distinct tattoo on his forearm.

On April 4, 2013, Pruitt pled to the crimes of principal to robbery armed with a firearm and principal to burglary of dwelling armed with a firearm and was sentenced to 10 years in state prison. As a condition of his sentence, he was required to  testify truthfully regarding  the involvement of other persons in this case. At Goble’s trial, Pruitt did testify that he and Goble committed the crimes.

Comments

4 Responses to “Man Gets 15 Years For Robbing Sleeping Victim”

  1. hampton on August 16th, 2013 8:28 am

    Knew this boy from middle school. Sad to see him grow up like this. You never would have thought he would do something like this…

  2. my 2 cents on August 12th, 2013 3:49 am

    Its a minimum mandatory 10 yr sentence…and has another 5 yrs for a different charge. I don’t think he’ll be robbing anyone,anytime soon.

  3. Jimbo on August 10th, 2013 6:16 pm

    He’ll be out in 4 and back inside in less than 5.

  4. mick on August 9th, 2013 6:34 pm

    15 years …not enough…

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