Article #61518

• Accused of being ‘primary conspirator’ in targeted plot

• Florida attorney: Potential sentence is up to life in prison

• Team decline to comment on cornerback’s situation

Detroit Lions starting cornerback Terrion Arnold has been arrested and is accused of being the ringleader in an armed robbery and kidnapping in Florida, and state prosecutors plan to charge him with multiple felonies.

Three men in their late teens were held at gunpoint, battered, pistol-whipped and robbed in Tampa on 4 February, and the 23-year-old Arnold was the “primary conspirator”, the Tampa police department said in a statement Wednesday.