Posted on 11/24/2004 7:39:15 PM PST by freepatriot32
NEW YORK (Nov. 24) - "Preppie Killer" Robert Chambers was arrested on a drug charge a year and a half after he was released from prison, where he served a 15-year sentence for manslaughter
Chambers, 38, was freed on $1,000 bail Wednesday after being arraigned on two misdemeanors, drug possession and driving with a suspended license. The court complaint said the license was suspended in May when Chambers failed to answer a summons for running a red light.
He was arrested Tuesday in a traffic stop when police allegedly found two straws and a tinfoil packet that had crack cocaine residue. Chambers was ordered to return to court Monday.
Chambers strangled 18-year-old Jennifer Levin in 1986 during a tryst in Central Park, and the slaying was splashed across New York City's tabloids as a story of privileged youth gone bad.
He claimed he killed Levin, a private-school student from a well-to-do family, accidentally during rough sex. Prosecutors said he was drunk and high on drugs and killed her in a rage when he was unable to perform sexually.
Behind bars, he committed a number of violations, including drug possession and assault on a guard, that kept him from being released early. He spent a third of his time in solitary confinement and was rejected for parole five times.
Chambers pleaded guilty to manslaughter after the jury in his murder trial deliberated for nine days and prosecutors feared a deadlock. He was released in February 2003 after serving the full 15 years.
His lawyer refused to comment on the drug charge. "We would just ask everybody to suspend judgment until we find out what happened," attorney Brian O'Dwyer said.
Chambers lives in Manhattan and works in retail outside the city, his lawyer said.
Just Damn!
I guess 15 years in the slam didn't teach this turd squat!
Don't tell me you're actually surprised...
No... not really. (sigh)
In my youth I worked and lived on the Upper East Side. I actually had a run in with this POS. Prison only the delayed the inevitability of the rest of miserable life and eventual stupid death.
I wonder if he is related to Scott Peterson. They need to go back and check the bloodlines.
Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll die in a drug-deal-gone-bad or while resisting arrest.
No, that would be him getting lucky. What will probably happen is likely to be much worse. A slow decent into drugs, jail, drugs, jail, drugs, death -- with the pattern broken up by beatings, addiction, beatings, addiction treatment, more beatings, homelessness, disease and more beatings.
I think I like your way better... but he may cause more trouble for innocent Americans that way.
And that makes him different from all the other criminals are there, how?
The truth about the guy -- and what wasn't reported in the press frequently -- is that he wasn't a "preppy." He was a poor kid whose mother worked two or three jobs to provide for him. He got a shot at a good education in a good school and blew it. Other kids from his circumstances have done amazing things -- he was just a "bad egg."
No different from any other born loser.
Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll come by my house to rob for his next fix. I'll be happy to permanently solve his societal problem.
No doubt he is guilty of even more than he has gotten caught for. He's a bad seed and cannot be trusted again in society. He needs to stay behind bars for the good of everyone.
He didn't have "every opportunity," but I'd wager he had more opportunities than most people on this board. So yeah, born loser.
i think you are probably right.
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