Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | https://www.justice.gov/
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | https://www.justice.gov/
A man on Monday admitted to committing two carjackings in the St. Louis area a year apart.
Ramon D. Davis, 19, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis to two counts of carjacking and two counts of brandishing and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. Davis admitted stealing a Mazda 3 at gunpoint in 2021 and, a little over a year later, a Mercedes SUV.
On Nov. 7, 2021, Davis, Montrell Jackson, and a juvenile male were walking past an alley when they saw an older man unloading his 2006 Mazda 3 and decided to carjack him. Davis was armed with a stolen handgun while Jackson also carried a handgun. They demanded the victim’s keys and then sped off down the alley.
Hours later, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s Real Time Crime Center cameras spotted the stolen Mazda. After a chase involving both St. Louis police and officers from the Hazelwood Police Department, Davis crashed and was arrested after hiding under a semitrailer nearby. Officers recovered two handguns from the stolen car.
On Nov. 11, 2022, Davis and others were in a stolen BMW when they saw a 2017 Mercedes GLS550 SUV parked in front of a CVS on Watson Road in Webster Groves. Davis had an AR-style pistol and confronted an occupant of the Mercedes before pushing her to the ground. Davis and one other individual, Tristan T. Davis, then drove off in the stolen SUV. They were arrested four days later.
Sentencing is scheduled for November 7th. The carjacking charges carry penalties of up to 15 years in prison while the brandishing charges carry mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment of seven years consecutive to any other sentence.
Jackson, 20, and Tristan Davis, also 20 years old, have pleaded guilty to carjacking and brandishing charges.
The St. Louis County Police Department; the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department; the FBI; the Webster Groves Police Department; and the Hazelwood Police Department investigated this case with Assistant U.S Attorney Zachary Bluestone prosecuting it.
This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), which brings together all levels of law enforcement along with communities to reduce violent crime and gun violence with an aim to make neighborhoods safer for everyone.
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