America’s most arrested man dies at age 74 after greater than 1,500 busts and 6,000 days in jail

America’s most arrested man who has spent 1000’s of days in jail has died on the age of 74. 

Henry Earl from Lexington, Kentucky, who was arrested greater than 1,500 instances in his profession of criminality, was buried on the Owenton Cemetery final week. 

His epic law-unabiding – principally public intoxication – made the homeless man nicknamed ‘James Brown’ and one thing of a legend in his metropolis.

He had spent the ultimate years of his life in obscurity on the Owenton Healthcare and Rehabilitation Facility. 

Since Earl had no identified household, staff on the facility have been in attendance on the ceremony. 

Earl, who began consuming on the age of 18 after his adoptive mom died and started his profession of criminality within the Seventies on the age of 20, was described as a charismatic with an amazing humorousness. 

‘He was a personality, he had an exquisite humorousness,’ mentioned Ginny Ramsey, founding father of Lexington’s Catholic Motion Middle, who knew him for many years. 

She additionally described him as mild soul with a free spirit. 

‘We might say now Henry Earl, that you must be in by 9:30 or 10 o’clock. The weekends you possibly can keep out until 11. Effectively, he tried, however wasn’t fairly prepared. 

‘Once we would not see Henry Earl for awhile, everybody would get involved, we thought he’d die within the streets. He did not die within the streets,’ she instructed LEX18. 

Two of the Owenton Facility’s staff who cared for Earl in his closing days and attended the ceremony described him as nice man who tried to make folks giggle. 

Kirsten Dempsey instructed the channel ‘he was a really nice man, at all times time, at all times tried to make folks giggle’ whereas Charlotte Woods joked ‘you possibly can ask him “what’s your identify?” and he’d say James Brown’.

Earl’s arrest historical past goes way back to July 1970 when he was in his twenties for carrying a hid weapon, based on The Smoking Gun, which has adopted his profession. He would go on to be arrested 33 extra instances that decade.

Since then, Earl has been progressively growing his frequency of arrests.

Within the Eighties, Earl picked up the tempo with 230 arrests, most as a result of public drunkenness or disorderly conduct. But it surely wasn’t till 2008, that Earl gained nationwide consideration when he discovered himself in courtroom for his a thousandth arrest for public intoxication.