Five people, including two teens, are charged in connection with a Prince George's County carjacking spree, according to the Prince George's County Police Department (PGPD).
Police said last Thursday, a 15-year-old boy from Forestville, Maryland, was charged with carjacking and other, related charges.
The teen was driving the car that had been carjacked at gunpoint earlier in the day in the 3500 block of 57th Avenue, according to authorities. The boy led police in a pursuit that ended in Washington, D.C.
Last Tuesday, a 15-year-old boy from Washington, D.C., was charged with armed carjacking and related charges. The teen was in a car that had been carjacked at gunpoint a short time earlier in the 1100 block of Kennebec Street in Oxon Hill. The teen was taken into custody in D.C., police said.
On Sunday, May 21, authorities charged Tony Budd, 33, of Hyattsville, with carjacking.
He was arrested after fleeing from detectives moments after carjacking a car at a cemetery on Bladensburg Road in Brentwood, PGPD said. He had also unsuccessfully attempted to carjack a second vehicle at the same cemetery that day, according to authorities.
On Saturday, May 20, police opened an investigation into a carjacking in the 1400 block of Southview Drive in Oxon Hill. Two days later, detectives and members of the PGPD’s Washington Area Vehicle Enforcement (WAVE) Team saw the vehicle in the 800 block of Irvington Street in Oxon Hill. The officers conducted a stop and took both people into custody.
Police said Adrian Price and Jaheim Chase, both 18, of Washington, D.C., are charged with motor vehicle theft, unauthorized use of a vehicle, and related charges.
So far in 2023, the Carjacking Interdiction Unit has charged 84 suspects in connection with carjacking cases – of those, 51 are juveniles and 33 are adults, police said.
PGPD officers have arrested 248 suspects in connection with auto thefts in 2023 – which is higher than all of 2022.
Of the 2023 arrests so far, 110 are adults and 138 are juvenile. The number of juveniles arrested for auto theft so far this year is more than double the number in all of 2022. In 2022, PGPD charged a total of 66 juveniles.
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