A Marion Superior Court judge sentenced a 17-year-old to 45 years in prison today for the attack and robbery of a bicyclist on the Monon Trail.Montaz Lewis was one of four teens arrested for the Oct. 6 incident, which happened after dusk near 28th Street on Indianapolis’ Near Northside. Lewis struck Darrell Arthur, 55, on the head with a wooden two-by-four board. The group then struck Arthur on the ground and robbed him of $12 and the bike, leaving him on the pedestrian trail.

Arthur would have died without the intervention of a neurosurgeon, Judge Mark Stoner said when he delivered the sentence. Arthur had been riding his bike south toward home after mowing a friend’s lawn.

He may never fully recover. “Now, he’s walking around slowly with a cane and has to hope his equilibrium doesn’t give out,” deputy prosecutor Mark Correll said.

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The other three teens pleaded guilty, and a jury convicted Lewis last month. He received the stiffest penalty — far more than the maximum 30 years he would have faced under a plea deal he initially accepted in May, but later rejected before signing an agreement.

This is just a sad situation all around.

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Indianapolis – A jury has found an Indianapolis teenager guilty of leading an attack on the Monon Trail last October. The verdict could send Montaz Lewis away for 70 years.

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