Detroit Lions cornerback Terrion Arnold is allegedly linked to a retaliatory armed robbery and kidnapping case in Florida (Image via Getty: Terrion Arnold) Detroit Lions’ first round 2024 pick Terrion Arnold’s name appeared in a Florida court order for an armed robbery and kidnapping at an apartment after midnight on February 4 in Tampa, Florida.According to court files released on Feb. 24 and obtained by the Detroit Free Press, the cornerback is associated with three men who were arrested in the case, but Arnold was not charged with a crime. Three men, namely Boakai Hilton Jr., Lyndell Hudson, and Christion Williams, were arrested and charged with three felony counts of kidnapping, three felony counts of robbery with a firearm with a deadly weapon, which could carry a life sentence.
Authorities allege armed robbery and kidnapping happened in retaliation for two thefts
Arnold’s rental Airbnb home in Largo was reportedly robbed twice. Sometime before the Tampa robbery, the cornerback was robbed of designer bags, $100K cash, an $80K necklace, and a cellphone issued to him by the NFL. Prosecutors stated that Arnold reported the robbery to the Largo Police Department and said that he suspected his driver, Yan Lopez, was involved in it.The seven-page court order from Hillsborough County Circuit Judge J. Logan Murphy stated Arnold and his friends decided to take matters into their own hands after the Largo’s two thefts. Boakai orchestrated an ambush while travelling back from Tallahassee, with Arnold seated in the back seat.Arnold’s girlfriend Arianna Del Valle’s friend, Jasmine Randazzo, lured a friend of Lopez’s, Daniel Tenesaca, and his friend Soljah Anderson into her Tampa apartment. Hudson and Williams were hiding and armed with an AR-style rifle and a semiautomatic firearm in the apartment. The court order stated that the cornerback’s girlfriend instructed Randazzo to bring Tenesaca, who had shown romantic interest in Randazzo, to the apartment. There are alleged text messages that show Del Valle told Randazzo to “act as bait…with promises that Arnold and his friends would pay Randazzo for doing so.”
Interrogated, pistol whipped, and held hostage in retaliation for robbery
The driver [Lopez] waited in the car while Tenesaca and his friend, Anderson, entered the apartment. Del Valle greeted them and said Randazzo was not at home. They thought she was joking and began looking for her in the house. When Tenesaca opened a bedroom closet door, Hudson and Williams jumped out, both armed, and they allegedly took both of them hostage in the bedroom. The order stated that they were “interrogating, beating, and pistol-whipping them for the better part of an hour.”The driver, who had been waiting in the car, grew suspicious and entered the apartment. He was also pistol-whipped and taken to the bedroom where the other two were kept. The cornerback’s girlfriend then began live-streaming on her phone to broadcast the encounter. Randazzo joined the stream.The court order stated that one of the defendants stuck the barrel of his firearm into Lopez’s mouth and demanded that he return the stolen property and Arnold’s cell phone. Before the victims left, the co-defendants took their phones and wallets. The order stated, “This was all done ostensibly to get Lopez, Tenesaca, and Anderson to admit that they stole the property from the Airbnb, which they never do.”