He Robbed a Taco Joint With a Toy Water Gun for $264. He Got Life in Prison.
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May 30, 2021, 10:19 PM·40 min read
Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast / Photos Courtesy Arkansas Dept of Corrections/Kelly Duda
On a Sunday night in February 1981, Rolf Kaestel robbed an Arkansas taco restaurant using a toy water gun. No one was injured in the stickup. He stole $264 and was sentenced to life in prison.
Forty years later, Kaestel is still behind bars for aggravated robbery. His penalty is unusually severe, supporters say, for a crime without injuries or even a physical altercation.
A Melbourne man Thursday was sentenced to 15 years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections on 90 counts of distributing, possessing or viewing sexually
Another white supremacist heads to federal prison for a long time
Another white supremacist heads to federal prison for a long time
Cheer this from US attorney in Little Rock:
Wesley Gullett, the president of a white supremacist organization which sold multiple kilograms of methamphetamine and committed numerous violent acts including attempted murder will spend the more than three decades in federal prison.
On Wednesday, United States District Court Judge Brian S. Miller sentenced Gullett, 31, of Russellville, to 35 years imprisonment, with five years of supervised release to follow, for Gullett’s leadership role in a violent drug conspiracy. There is no parole in the federal system. Gullett was president of New Aryan Empire (NAE), a white supremacist group founded by inmates in the Arkansas Department of Corrections.