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Saturday, December 7, 2013
WOW: World's Most Arrested Man (Over a 1000 times)
I know it seems unbelievable but trust me its far from that, some of you are already calculating how it would have happened, whether they arrested him everyday of his life or twice a day....lol..quit thinking ....I'll give you the full gist.
It's a dubious honor, for sure, but Henry Earl, 64, has become a sort of celebrity, especially among students and police in the city of 300,000. To many, the homeless gent goes by James Brown, after the "Godfather of Soul," and can often be found singing and shaking his moneymaker for change to buy his next drink
Lexington police and Fayette County jail officials say they can't confirm an exact number because their records go back to only 1992 (Earl began his arrest career in 1970), but Lexington police spokeswoman Sherelle Roberts says Earl has "definitely" been in handcuffs more than 1,000 times.
"It's a weekly, if not every-two-or-three-days thing," she said. "He's never doing bad or illegal things purposely. ... He's just so highly intoxicated that he's posing a danger to himself."
Almost all of his arrests have been for alcohol intoxication, though there's the occasional criminal trespass, Roberts said.
There have even been times when Earl was released from the Fayette County Jail in the evening, only to return by midnight. One anecdote -- and there are many -- places a fresh-out-of-the-clink Earl in a sandwich shop near the University of Kentucky campus, telling jokes and dancing for change, wrote commenter Douglas Hurt on The Smoking Gun website.
"We walked outside and he said he needed a place to go and looked around like he was looking for someone. Next thing I know is that a cop drives by and Henry says, 'Welp... here's my ride' and grabs someone's drink and throws it at the cop car," Hurt wrote.
Lately, judges have started handing down harsher sentences, jail spokeswoman Jennifer Taylor said. She said some of Earl's sentences in recent years have lasted three months. He's been arrested five times this year, she said.
In the past, when his sentences were shorter, it was common for Earl to rack up dozens of arrests in a year, she said.
"Most people on the streets of Lexington know who he is," Taylor said.
A local band, the Dangles, even wrote a song about him a few years back. The chorus goes, "So tell Henry Earl I wanna be his girl/He's the sanest guy in town and he can dance just like James Brown/Unlike the other boys around that made me cry."
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