A Chicago man was sentenced to over 18 years in federal prison for violently carjacking two vehicles in the city in 2017 and 2018.
Kashif Dukes, 29, pleaded guilty to the first carjacking and was convicted by a jury in 2021 of the second carjacking.
The second carjacking occurred on July 21, 2018, in the Little Italy neighborhood on Chicago’s Near West Side when Dukes and accomplices took a Chevy Equinox from a woman and her two children and granddaughter.
The carjackers brandished firearms and shouted at the women to ‘get the [expletive] out of the car’ and to ‘get the baby and get the [expletive] out.’
Dukes was also convicted of federal firearm charges.
U.S. District Judge Jorge L. Alonso imposed a sentence of 18 years and three months in federal prison on Tuesday.
The sentence was announced by Morris Pasqual, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Christopher Amon, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Field Division of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and Larry Snelling, Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jasmina Vajzovic argued in the government’s sentencing memorandum that Dukes ‘traumatized the victims and placed them in fear of their lives.’
‘The community as a whole – victims, witnesses, society, and perpetrators – needs to know that the federal system takes the crime of carjacking seriously and will justly punish those who choose to spend their time terrorizing others,’ she added.
Key Facts
- State: Illinois
- Category: Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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