Carjacking

A 24-year-old Baltimore man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Wednesday for a Christmas-Day carjacking, the Maryland U.S. attorney's office announced. Tyrone Royster and an accomplice were on the 3300 block of West Coldspring Lane on Dec. 25, 2010, when a man pulled over to give them a ride, according to court documents. One of them pressed something against the driver's neck and demanded money. When the victim tried to take off his jacket to access his cash, Royster told the conspirator to shoot.

A 24-year-old Baltimore man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Wednesday for a Christmas-Day carjacking, the Maryland U.S. attorney's office announced. Tyrone Royster and an accomplice were on the 3300 block of West Coldspring Lane on Dec. 25, 2010, when a man pulled over to give them a ride, according to court documents. One of them pressed something against the driver's neck and demanded money. When the victim tried to take off his jacket to access his cash, Royster told the conspirator to shoot.

A woman told Anne Arundel County police that a man tried to carjack her Thursday afternoon as she was getting out of her car in the Walmart parking lot in Laurel. About 1:20 p.m. in the 3500 block of Russett Green, a man came over to the woman's car, grabbed her around her neck and tried to take her keys, police said. She screamed and the man ran away, according to police. The woman suffered minor injuries, police said.

Edward Lamptey walked out of a fast-foot restaurant in Park Heights in May of 2010 and got carjacked. But it's what happened next that sets this case apart. Prosecutors say he was forced to drive to ATMs, dragged into an alley, beaten, shot, stripped and left unconscious. Then, authorities said his assailants set his car on fire. The Baltimore State's Attorney's Office said on Wednesday that the main suspect, Terrell Scott, 21, of the 3500 block of West Garrison St., was convicted by a jury of armed car jacking, robbery with a deadly weapon, kidnapping and several other crimes.

The manslaughter and carjacking trial of Charles Johnson III, who's accused of killing three Baltimore teens in a car crash last year after blowing through a red light in a stolen vehicle, was postponed Friday until Oct. 3. Assistant Public Defender Jane E. McGough requested the delay so she could arrange for an independent evaluation of Johnson's mental health records. The 20-year-old has already been found competent to stand trial by state evaluators, but McGough said she wants an outside opinion.

A Crofton man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for beating and carjacking a woman outside a mall. Forty-one-year-old Andre Ennis was sentenced Tuesday in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court. He had entered an Alford plea. According to The Capital of Annapolis, Ennis beat a 61-year-old woman and stole her car outside Marley Station Mall on March 2. Police found the woman's car the next day in Baltimore, and used fingerprints and DNA found in the vehicle to identify Ennis as a suspect.

One suspect has been arrested in connection with an Odenton carjacking early Friday morning, but another is still at large, according to an Anne Arundel County Police spokesman. Two men reported they were leaving their vehicle in the 2100 block of Peaceful Way at 2:06 a.m. when they were approached by two people, said Justin Mulcahy, the spokesman. One showed the victims a handgun and demanded the keys to his car and property, Mulcahy said. The pair took the car and drove south on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.

A man was shot during an attempted carjacking in North Baltimore early Friday morning, according to Baltimore Police. Based on preliminary reports, a 23-year-old driving in the 4500 block of Northwood Drive in the New Northwood neighborhood at 2:36 a.m. was shot in the lower abdomen, said city police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. The victim was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital in critical condition, police said. No further information was available.

A 21-year-old fromAberdeen was sentenced in federal court Thursday to more than 12 years in prison for armed carjacking, prosecutors said. Tyrone Moore was sentenced to 147 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy, carjacking and using a firearm during a crime of violence, according to a statement by the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland. In November 2007, Moore and two others used a gun to force a victim standing outside his SUV to give them his car keys, the statement said.

Members of the Baltimore Police SWAT team made an arrest in a fatal shooting Tuesday night after following a man seen scurrying away from the crime scene, court records show. Guy Leon Thomas, 22, of the 1800 block of Ashburton, was seen discarding a handgun and after being taken into custody confessed to the murder of 23-year-old Dexter Maurice Jones Jr., according to charging documents. A motive is not described in the court papers. Officers were dispatched to the 1800 block of Ashburton St., at North Avenue, for a report of a shooting and found Jones face-down suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to his arm and body.  Members of the SWAT team began an area canvas and saw Thomas walking on Braddish Avenue, nervously looking back at the officers and appearing to conceal something in his waistband.

He was on probation and wearing a GPS monitoring device. He was also armed with a rusty machete, and prosecutors said he carjacked a woman as she checked the oil in her car on Ravenwood Avenue in May. On Tuesday, a Baltimore Circuit Court jury convicted the teenager, Terrell Singleton, of carjacking and car theft, and he faces up to 69 years in prison when he is sentenced in April. Prosecutors said the GPS device he was wearing, so that prison officials could keep track of him, put him at the scene of the holdup.

Three men were arrested in connection with a series of robberies and carjackings that occurred over a four-hour span Tuesday night across Baltimore County and the city, ending when the men crashed their vehicle near the Domino Sugars factory while fleeing police. Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III and Baltimore County Chief James W. Johnson, who announced the arrests at a joint news conference Wednesday afternoon, called the robberies a "mini-crime spree" and said police worked together to catch the suspects, who had open warrants and criminal records.

An admitted Crips gang member from the Aberdeen area was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison Thursday for his role in a 2007 armed carjacking in Baltimore City. U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Tyrone Moore, 21, to 147 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy, carjacking and using a firearm during a crime of violence, according to the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office. Moore was 17 when the carjacking occurred. Two years earlier, at age 15, Moore was shot in the chest and nearly killed during what police in Harford County said was a turf war in Aberdeen's low-income Washington Park housing complex between the rival Crips and Bloods gangs.

A 21-year-old fromAberdeen was sentenced in federal court Thursday to more than 12 years in prison for armed carjacking, prosecutors said. Tyrone Moore was sentenced to 147 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy, carjacking and using a firearm during a crime of violence, according to a statement by the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland. In November 2007, Moore and two others used a gun to force a victim standing outside his SUV to give them his car keys, the statement said.

A Crofton man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison as the result of a plea agreement in a case in which he was accused of carjacking a Macy's employee in the parking lot of Marley Station mall, leaving her with debilitating injuries. Andre M. Ennis, 41, made no statements Tuesday as he entered an Alford plea, which allowed him to deny responsibility while acknowledging that prosecutors had enough evidence to convict him. Among that evidence was Ennis' DNA, which prosecutors said was found outside and inside the victim's car, including on the steering wheel and on the straw of a cup, prosecutor Anastasia Prigge told Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge William Mulford II, according to a recording of the plea proceeding.

Anne Arundel police said they have arrested two males, one of them a juvenile, in connection with a hit-and-run accident, a robbery and an attempted carjacking near Route 100 in Hanover on Saturday afternoon. Police said they responded to a hit-and-run accident near Arundel Mills Boulevard., near the entrance ramp of Route 100 West. Officers found that Gregory Allen Lassiter, 19, of Baltimore, was the driver and a 15-year-old from Baltimore was the passenger of a 2007 Chevrolet that had been stolen, police said.