Gilbert Arenas, the Washington Wizards’ guard, avoided jail time he got for bringing guns to the Verizon center threatening his teammate Javaris Crittenton following a fight over a card-game debt that didn’t involve guaranteed loans. The prosecution is calling Gilbert’s “self serving, ever-evolving” story a thin attempt to try and hide a pattern of “thuggish” intimidation and bullying while Arenas and his defense attorneys say it was just “a prank gone wrong,” according to the Washington Post. D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert Morin at first sentenced “Agent Zero” to 18 months in jail, but that part of the sentence was suspended. In Morin’s mind, all that Gilbert Arenas owes the justice system is $ 5,000 donation to a crime victim’s fund, 400 hours of community service, 30 days in a halfway house, and two years probation.
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This is why the $ 5,000 donation is shockingly low. Those crime victims would do just as well with some payday loans. What of the lack of jail time if he is retained by the NBA and Washington Wizards? If an average person brings a gun to work – even if it is unloaded, as Gilbert Arenas alleges his guns were – they’ll serve jail time AND be fired.The practical joke defense wouldn’t mean a thing. Not serving in jail is an affront to justice, whether Arenas is a joker who doesn’t know when to stop or is a common gang-banger with more money than brains.
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The Post says that he said he “weighed several factors in issuing his sentence.” First of all, the firearms involved were registered in Virginia. The probation bell might have been rung since this occurred in D.C..Secondly, Arenas has no history that was documented of violence, and it wasn’t proven that the guns were loaded. Start up Lee Greenwood’s “Proud to Be an American!”
Gilbert Arenas has faced gun charges before.
In 2003, Gilbert Arenas was arrested right outside of San Francisco when police observed a gun on the floor of his car during a traffic stop as he was leaving the Golden State Warriors.It was registered in Arizona, but not California. “Agent Zero” pled no contest to illegal gun possession and served two years of probation.
