Malik Evans, Conspiracy to Participate in Racketeering, Maryland 2022

Baltimore, Maryland – Malik Evans, age 25, of Baltimore City, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to participate in racketeering activity.

The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Erek L. Barron; Acting Special Agent in Charge L.C. Cheeks, Jr. of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Baltimore Field Division; and Commissioner Michael Harrison of the Baltimore Police Department.

According to his guilty plea, from April 2019 to August 2019, Evans and co-defendant Karon Foster, age 27, of Baltimore, Maryland, were members of an enterprise that engaged in a pattern of deadly racketeering activity, including a series of armed carjackings, armed robberies, attempted armed robberies, and the pawning of stolen goods.

Specifically, between April 19, 2019, and August 8, 2019, Evans participated in four of thirteen carjackings committed by the enterprise. In all four of the carjackings in which Evans participated, members of the enterprise brandished firearms. Other co-conspirators, not including Evans, participated in an armed carjacking in which one victim was shot and killed. Two other victims were killed during street robberies; another victim was paralyzed as a result of an armed street robbery.

Members of the conspiracy not only promoted their activities on social media, but they also shared the proceeds of their exploits. Members also concealed enterprise activities by hiding, destroying, or disposing of evidence.

On December 20, 2021, co-defendant Karon Foster was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for conspiracy to participate in racketeering activity, a carjacking conspiracy, and for aiding and abetting a carjacking resulting in death.

Evans and the government have agreed that, if the Court accepts the plea agreement, Evans will be sentenced to 17 years in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher has scheduled sentencing for May 31, 2022, at 10 a.m.

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