A Kentucky man who was sentenced to 14 years in prison last year but was put back on the street five months after his sentencing has been arrested after a Louisville woman and her children were kidnapped at knifepoint.
Armond Langford. 32, was arrested Friday after a six-hour manhunt, according to WHAS-TV.
Before his arrest, a woman and her two children were kidnapped. The woman said she was forced to drive to a bank as Langford demanded $20,000.
“He opened our back door and told them to get in the car…. They got in the car. They drove to the bank. He held a knife at her the whole time, he was telling her to drive faster,” Brandon Strong, husband and father of the victims, told the TV station.
He said his wife was stabbed during the ordeal and was treated for a non-life-threatening stab wound.
Langford had been sentenced to 14 years in prison in February 2024 after being convicted on charges of robbing multiple people who were withdrawing cash from ATMs from August 2021 to November 2021.
However, in July 2024, Judge Jessica Green granted a request for what’s called “shock probation,” in which the surprise of being set free is allegedly what keeps a criminal from reoffending.
Green was named to the bench in 2022 by Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear.
Louisville council member Anthony Piagentini vented his anger.
Hellbound and Down 