LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Louisville man charged with kidnapping a mother and her two children near Oxmoor Center in August and using them in a bank robbery appeared in court Wednesday for a probation revocation hearing.
Armond Langford, 32, was released on shock probation in July 2024 after receiving a 14-year prison sentence in February 2024. Shock probation allows a prisoner to serve a short time in custody and, if deemed unlikely to reoffend, be released under community supervision.
Police say Langford admitted to the crimes after his August arrest, giving Judge Jessica Green grounds to revoke his probation. However, Green paused the hearing Wednesday, saying she wants a new competency hearing in his 2025 case before making a decision.
“I’m competent,” Langford told the court, seated next to public defender Jennifer Skaggs. He asked the judge to revoke his probation and return him to prison, claiming his safety was at risk.
“I just told her, I don’t want to be here. I done get stabbed. I’m tryna get revoked, ‘fam.’ I’m not tryna be here,” Langford said, referring to incidents in Louisville Metro Department of Corrections. A jail spokesperson confirmed he had been involved in some incidents but declined further details.
Green said a competency hearing is scheduled for March 5, and no decision on revocation has been made.
Langford was sentenced to 14 years in February 2024 after pleading guilty to multiple counts of second-degree robbery, one count of first-degree burglary, and giving false information to officers. Court documents show he robbed or attempted to rob 22 people at ATMs between August and November 2021.
He was initially assigned to the Roederer Correctional Complex in Oldham County, then classified as a low-level prisoner and transferred to the Bluegrass Career Development Center halfway house. In July 2024, Green approved his shock probation, imposing conditions such as attending intensive outpatient treatment with Seven Counties Services and complying with drug and alcohol programs.
After reoffending in August 2025 by stabbing the Lyndon mother, kidnapping her two children, and committing a bank robbery, many officials criticized Judge Green’s decision. Green said she received racially motivated death threats following the incident.
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