Lions Cornerback Terrion Arnold Arrested On Kidnapping And Robbery Charges

Detroit Lions cornerback Terrion Arnold was arrested late Wednesday in Tampa, Fla., and charged with four counts of kidnapping and four counts of armed robbery. Jail records showed Arnold turned himself in and was booked in Hillsborough County’s Orient Road Jail.

Arnold’s arrest is related to an ongoing criminal case in which six codefendants have been charged with assaulting and robbing three men in an apartment. According to court documents filed by Hillsborough prosecutors, the six codefendants—Arianna Del Valle, Jasmine Randazzo, Lyndell Hudson, Christion Williams, Boakai Hilton Jr., and Freddie Lee Hughes III—lured the alleged victims into an apartment because they believed the three were responsible for previously burglarizing an Airbnb that Arnold had rented in Largo, Fla. Once the three alleged victims were lured into the apartment, court documents said they were held at gunpoint, pistol-whipped, interrogated, and robbed. (The same record said, “There is no evidence that any of the victims are involved in the theft.”)

Arnold’s Airbnb was burglarized twice, he told police, once in late January and again in early February. On Feb. 3, Arnold spoke with Largo police and reported property loss of more than $250,000, the Detroit Free Press reported. Arnold told officers that he suspected that two of the three men who were allegedly kidnapped and beaten were responsible for the Airbnb burglary, but investigators ultimately determined they were not involved.