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An Indianapolis man will serve 27 years in prison for robbing and seriously injuring a man at a Greenwood gas station.
Gary W. Arthur, 46, was sentenced Tuesday to 27 years for robbery resulting in serious bodily injury, a Level 2 felony, Johnson Superior Court 3 Judge Douglas Cummins. Arthur will serve the sentence in an Indiana Department of Correction facility, according to a news release from the Johnson County Prosecutor’s Office.
On April 20, 2022, the victim, Charlie Ferguson, was on his way to work with a friend in his new truck when they stopped for coffee at Speedway, 1350 U.S. 31 South, Greenwood. While Ferguson was inside, Arthur jumped into the driver’s seat of Ferguson’s truck, the news release says.
Ferguson saw someone in his truck and ran out of the store. He confronted Arthur and was attempting to open the door of the vehicle when Arthur started driving away. Ferguson was thrown off the truck and Arthur ran him over in his effort to get away, according to the news release.
Ferguson’s injuries included a crushed pelvis and a traumatic brain injury. He was in the hospital for two weeks and spent another three months in a hospital bed in his mother’s living room due to having steel rods drilled into his pelvic bones to allow them to heal in the proper position, the news release says.
Prosecutors say Ferguson still suffers from memory loss, headaches, insomnia and hip pain. He was evicted from his apartment and fired from his job in the weeks after the crime. His new truck was also a total loss.
At sentencing, Ferguson spoke directly to Arthur. He told him, “If you would have asked, I would have given you a ride.”
In pronouncing Arthur’s sentence, Judge Cummins told Arthur that Ferguson is facing “a lifetime of problems from the injuries you caused.”
Johnson County Prosecutor Lance Hamner was very pleased with the stiff sentence, he said in the news release.
“This is another example of Indianapolis criminals coming down to Johnson County to prey on our citizens,” Hamner said. “They have to learn the hard way that robbing and hurting our people will land you in a cage — for decades. I really hope Mr. Arthur tells all his friends that we don’t tolerate that kind of savagery here.”
