The armed parolee whom Chicago Police Officer Krystal Rivera was chasing when her partner unintentionally shot and killed her last year received an eight-year sentence on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to one of the least-serious charges that prosecutors filed against him, court records show.
Jaylin Arnold, 28, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a weapon with two or more previous gun convictions in exchange for the sentence from Judge Barbara Dawkins. Dawkins handed him a concurrent three-year sentence for a narcotics count. Prosecutors dropped 90 other felony counts, including 65 Class X charges, the most serious felonies in Illinois short of murder.
With the state’s standard 50% sentence reduction and credit for 333 days he spent in jail awaiting trial, Arnold will likely be paroled in three years and one month…