A Maryland man pleaded guilty on March 1, 2024, to carjacking and carrying a firearm during a crime of violence.
Davonne Tramont Dorsey, age 30, of Gwynn Oak, also admitted that he and other conspirators kidnapped victims and attempted to rob them, using force and threats of force.
According to his plea agreement, in May and August 2021, Dorsey and other conspirators planned to impersonate police officers to stop vehicles, carjack and abduct victims, and use force and threats of force to steal cash.
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Dorsey and other conspirators posed as police officers, using police vests, badges, and a law enforcement-type light bar to stop the victims and their vehicles, and brandished firearms and a blow torch during the kidnappings.
Accordign to the Department of Justice, on May 15, 2021, driving a Ford Fusion with police-style lights, Dorsey and other members of the conspiracy drove to Edgewood, Maryland to abduct and rob a victim.
Dorsey and the others were wearing police-style vests with “police” written on them, masks, and gloves.
Around midnight on May 15-16, 2021, the victim left Edgewood, driving a 2022 Toyota Camry. The members of the conspiracy used the police-style lights to stop the vehicle.
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Dorsey and the conspirators, armed with firearms, approached the victim’s car and identified themselves as police. The conspirators told the victim that he had an outstanding warrant and that he was under arrest.
The conspirators put the victim in handcuffs, put duct tape over his eyes and mouth, bound his feet, and put him in the back of their vehicle.
The victim was then driven away in the Ford Fusion with two of the conspirators while two other members of the conspiracy followed in the victim’s Camry.
While the victim was in the Ford Fusion, the conspirators demanded $10,000, told the victim that they knew where he lived and that they would kill his parents if he did not cooperate.
One of the conspirators used a blow torch to burn the victim’s chest multiple times when the victim did not answer questions.
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The conspirators took the victim’s necklace, wallet, phone, and car keys. After more than 5 hours of driving and demanding money, the conspirators released the man in Baltimore City at approximately 5:20 a.m.
Further, Dorsey admitted that on August 2, 2021, he and two co-conspirators approached victim A.K. as she left the check cashing business where she worked.
The conspirators, wearing police vests and badges, brandished firearms to kidnap victim A.K. and placed her into the rear of one of their vehicles equipped with law enforcement-type lights. The driver was holding a blowtorch with a blue fuel canister, and A.K. observed a bottle of bleach on the floor in the back of the car.
After A.K. entered the vehicle, the men bound A.K.’s wrists behind her back with zip-ties and used black duct tape to affix a blindfold over her eyes.
One of the men stated to A.K., “We don’t burn sisters.”
According to the plea agreement, while in the vehicle, the men took A.K.’s wallet, phone, and keys, which included the keys to the check cashing business.
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The men demanded that A.K. provide access to the check cashing business, including demanding the A.K. provide the men with access codes, safe codes, and the amount of money in the safe at the business.
The men demanded information from A.K. for nearly 6 hours, then released A.K. in Edmonson Village in Baltimore City at approximately 1:00 a.m. Before they drove away, the men instructed A.K. not to remove her face covering until they had driven away.
Dorsey and the government have agreed that, if the Court accepts the guilty plea, a sentence of 15 years in federal prison is the appropriate sentence in this case.
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