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Carjacking Ring Busted: Four DC Men Indicted on 76 Counts
A 76-count superseding indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court charges four Washington DC men with conspiring to commit a total of 33 carjackings in Washington D.C. and Maryland between December 2022, and June 2023.
The indictment builds on a previous superseding indictment that had charged three of the men with 33-counts covering a total of 11 carjackings. The most recent superseding indictment charges Cedae Hardy, 19, and newly added defendant Keyonte Rice, 19, with an attempted carjacking resulting in death.
According to the indictment, between December 2022 and June 2023, Cedae Hardy, 19, Landrell Jordan III, 19, Malik Norman, 20, and Keyonte Rice, 19, and other uncharged co-conspirators, conspired to carjack victims of their vehicles at gunpoint around the District of Columbia and Maryland and to sell the carjacked vehicles for profit or use them in future carjackings.
All four defendants are charged with conspiracy to commit carjacking. Hardy, aka “Peso,” is charged, alone and with various members of the conspiracy, in 24 of the carjacking counts. In addition to the January 4, 2023, attempted carjacking resulting in death, alleged to have been committed by Hardy and Rice, Hardy is further charged with attempted carjacking resulting in serious bodily injury for an April 18, 2023, carjacking in Hyattsville, Maryland, in which Hardy allegedly shot a rideshare driver multiple times at close range.
The indictment charges the four defendants with a total of 76 counts, including conspiracy to commit carjacking, carjacking, attempted carjacking resulting in death, and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. The charges carry a statutory maximum of life in prison for attempted carjacking resulting in death.
The four defendants are currently in custody and will be arraigned in U.S. District Court on the superseding indictment. U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves, FBI Assistant Director in Charge David Sundberg of the Washington Field Office, and Chief Pamela A. Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department announced the indictment today.
A trial date has not been set. This case is being investigated by the FBI’s Washington Field Office, the Metropolitan Police Department, and the Prince George’s County Police Department. It is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.
Key Facts
- State: Washington DC
- Agency: DOJ USAO
- Category: Violent Crime
- Source: Official Source ↗
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