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DC Thief Hit with Enhanced Charges for Nordstrom Rack Heist
A 46-year-old Washington D.C. man has been slapped with enhanced charges for allegedly swiping merchandise from a Nordstrom Rack store in Northwest.
Karim Clayton, 46, of Washington, D.C., was indicted by a grand jury in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on one count of felony second-degree theft stemming from events occurring on April 26, 2024, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Chief Pamela Smith, of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
According to the government’s evidence, on April 26, 2024, Clayton took merchandise without paying from the Nordstrom Rack store located in Northwest, Washington, D.C. Clayton was located and arrested after investigation by the Metropolitan Police Department. His alleged theft comes with a hefty price: enhanced penalties, including a mandatory minimum sentence of one year in jail for each count of theft for which he is indicted.
Clayton has two or more prior theft convictions, though not from the same occasion, which qualify him for the enhanced penalties. Since September 1, 2023, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia has indicted 45 cases involving a felony second-degree theft charge based on a defendant’s two or more prior theft convictions, not from the same occasion.
The case was investigated by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. It is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Granzotto. Clayton will be arraigned on May 29, 2024, at a hearing before a Superior Court judge.
An indictment is merely a formal charge that a defendant has committed a violation of criminal laws and every defendant is presumed innocent until, and unless, proven guilty.
Key Facts
- State: Washington DC
- Agency: DOJ USAO
- Category: White Collar Crime
- Source: Official Source ↗
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