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Deputies: Man Goes On Rampage After Girlfriend Spurns Sex

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By HALLE STOCKTON

Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Published: August 27, 2008

  Adam Arling

BRADENTON - Authorities say a 20-year-old man hit his girlfriend when she wouldn't have sex with him Monday morning and then went to a house armed with a machete and stole speaker equipment.

Adam D. Arling, 20, of the 6000 block of 12th Avenue West, was arrested at about 9 p.m. Monday on charges of battery, armed burglary with assault and obstruction without violence, according to a Manatee County sheriff's report.

At about 5:30 a.m. Monday, Arling tried to convince his girlfriend to have sex and struck her several times in the chest and face when she refused, according to a report.

About an hour and a half later, Arling woke the residents of a home in the 4500 block of 20th Street West by pounding on the front door and threatening them, according to a report.

Arling then entered the home's storage closet, stole speakers and a speaker box and left, according to a report.

Another man, Robert J. Cooper, 22, of Bradenton, was arrested on a charge of burglary for assisting Arling in stealing the speaker equipment.

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