A suspected member of the Gilbert Goons was arrested again just hours after he was sentenced to three years probation for an assault linked to the Arizona teen gang.
Jacob Pennington, 20, was arrested on suspicion of underage drinking, the same day he was sentenced for an assault in Gilbert.
Pennington is believed to be a part of the Gilbert Goons - the name given to a group of teenagers and young adults who have terrorized Phoenix suburbs for the last two years.
The teens' alleged reign of violence, which includes armed robberies and dozens of assaults at parties and in parking lots - several with brass knuckles - culminated with the fatal beating of Preston Lord, 16, at a Halloweenparty on October 28, 2022.
Pennington has not been charged in relation to Preston Lord's death.
Jacob Pennington, 20, was arrested on suspicion of underage drinking on June 13, the same day he was sentenced for a 2022 assault in Gilbert
This month Pennington has appeared in court twice regarding two different cases - one on June 10 for an assault relating to an incident in 2023.
Three days later on June 13, Pennington was sentenced to three years supervised probation for a 2022 assault and then later that day, he was arrested for underage drinking.
He was in a car which had been pulled over for a criminal traffic violation near Lindsay and Elliot roads around 10.45pm.
Gilbert police told Fox10: 'Evidence was observed which indicated Pennington had consumed an alcoholic beverage.
'Upon completing the investigation, Jacob Pennington was arrested and booked into the Gilbert-Chandler Unified Holding Facility for ARS 4-244.41, minor in consumption of alcohol, a class 2 misdemeanor.'
After his latest arrest, Maricopa County Attorney's Office filed a petition to revoke his probation sentence.
The building cases against him come after the Chandler Unified school district in Arizonawas sued by dozens of parentswho claim their children have been harassed, seriously injured, driven out of the country and even to suicide by the gang.
Pennington's mother Alisha Tidwell denied her sons, Jacob and his younger brother Noah, were involved in teen violence when approached by DailyMail.com, saying 'none of it is true.'
'I'm not worried,' she added. 'If I didn't know who my kid was, I would be.'
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However, Jacob admitted to police that he was part of the Goons in January, claiming the name originated from a Snapchat group, according to police documents.
The group were only officially designated as a gang in May.
Following a months-long investigation, sparked by the killing of 16-year-old Preston Lord, embattled Gilbert police chief Michael Soelberg confirmed the group functions as an organized criminal entity.
The chief explained the Goons were classified as a 'hybrid gang,' because it relies on social media, its members are not of the same race and it has a 'lax or absent' code of conduct.
The Goons have been involved in at least 95 assaults in 18 attacks, most in Gilbert, as reported by the Arizona Republic.
Soelberg previously told DailyMail.com his department has made 29 arrests in connection to the attacks.
Lord's murder suspects from top left to right: Jacob Meisner, Talan Renner, Taylor Sherman, Treston Billey, Talyn Vigil,Dominic Turner and William 'Owen' Hines
The Gilbert Goons are thought to be behind an August 2023 attack on Rick Kuehner's 16-year-old son in an In-N-Out parking lot in Gilbert
Kuehner claims he had been trying to get Gilbert police and school officials to protect his son from the Goons since last summer after the attack
Gilbert, a wealthy Phoenix suburb once billed as the country's second-safest city, has been in national news over the teen delinquents who have allegedly terrorized the community since as far back as 2022.
But Soelberg has said the videos of teen attacks and claims made by alleged victims about their reign of terror were not shared with police until after the fatal beating of Lord 16, at a Halloween party in October in nearby Queen Creek.
Seven teens and young men, including several Goons suspects, have been charged with his murder, sparking accusations from some in the community who believe the alleged killers should have been removed from the streets long ago.
One father, Rick Kuehner, claims he had been trying to get Gilbert police and school officials to protect his son from the Goons since last summer, when his child was first threatened and then brutally beaten up at an In-N-Out parking lot which was a go-to spot for the teen delinquents.
In a lawsuit against Goon suspects, their parents and Arizona officials, Kuehner argues that authorities failed to protect his son, and then also failed to punish the Goons.
