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Escambia Sexual Predator Gets 35 Years In Prison For Failing To Register, Meth
November 15, 2022
A designated Escambia County sexual predator that failed to meet registration requirements has been sentenced to 35 years on state prison.
Robert James Pooley was sentenced for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, trafficking in methamphetamine and failure of a sexual predator to register.
Pooley failed to register as required by his sexual predator status, prosecutors said. When law enforcement went to arrest him for the registration violation, they found him in possession of a firearm and a trafficking amount of methamphetamine.
Pooley was convicted in 1999 on charges including multiple counts of sexual battery by a juvenile on a victim under age 12.
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8 Responses to “Escambia Sexual Predator Gets 35 Years In Prison For Failing To Register, Meth”
Known this guy most of my life. He’s spent most of his life in and out of prison for 1 thing or another. And to be honest his sexual charge was when he was 15-16 he violated that probation by breaking into a soda machine as kids. Then he got out violated condition when back came out was involved in a girl getting killed in a hotel room did years again for that and was just released close to 2018-19 he isn’t a predator he’s a dummy. That is all. And it’s 7 years for not registering 7 for the fire arm 7 for the trafficking and 14 for the continued escalation of criminal behavior.
Chris
>>>>> He could follow the rules and not sell meth and still be the grat guy you know.. But he is a monster and deals in death so he got exactly what he asked for..
I have known this guy most of my life. He’s definitely not a sex predator. I know everyone’s experiences and opinions are different, but 35 years is too long. Give the man a chance to live his life instead of letting a teenage decision stigmatize the life he’s worked very hard to change. As a society, we can’t continue to punish people who make the positive changes.
RaD – I agree if he molested someone at age 17 and has kept a clean slate for 23 years . Doesn’t seem he has an uncontrollable compulsion to molest kids, which is the reason for keeping track of sexual predators. Sounds more like Kids exploring with kids- each case is different . slippery slope to brand and punish a person for life.
Of course being in possession of drugs is a different matter – but had it not for failure to register they would not have searched his residence.
Should have never been released on the first time around.
I’m just bewildered as to how this guy gets 35 yes for failure to register, but recent sex charge crime sentences for new occurrences seem to be at 20 years or less. There seems to be no real system for sentencing. It just appears to all fall on what type of day the judge is having in escambia county. Obviously I’m not condoning whatever this guy did. But the sentence seems very excessive.
Mr. Pooley was born in 1982 so in 1999, he was a 17 year old Juvenile. There is no record that in the 23 years since then, he has committed additional crimes of this nature. So at 40 years old, he is going to prison for 30 years or basically the rest of his life for failure to register for a crime committed 23 years ago as a juvenile.
I am not forgiving the man for his crimes but 30 years for failure to register seems a little excessive. The cost to incarcerate him for those 30 years will come to $28K/year or $841K total, according to the State of Florida’s OPPAGA website.
So he just wanted to go to prison.