4 Carjackings, Including At A Cemetery, Lead To Charges Against 2 Teens, 3 Adults: Police

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD — Five suspects, including two teens, have been arrested and charged in connection to four carjacking cases. One of the carjackings happened at a cemetery as did an attempted carjacking.

On May 25, a 15-year-old was found driving the car that had been carjacked at gunpoint earlier in the day in the 3500 block of 57th Avenue. The suspect led police in a chase that ended in Washington, D.C. The teen, who is from Forestville, faces armed carjacking and related charges, according to Prince George's County Police.

On May 23, a 15-year-old from Washington, D.C., was in a car that had been carjacked at gunpoint in the 1100 block of Kennebec Street in Oxon Hill. He faces armed carjacking and related charges, police reported.

On May 21, 33-year-old Tony Budd of Hyattsville was taken into custody after trying to escape detectives moments after carjacking a car at a cemetery on Bladensburg Road in Brentwood. He had also unsuccessfully attempted to carjack a second vehicle at the same cemetery that day, police said.

On May 20, detectives opened an investigation into a carjacking that happened in the 1400 block of Southview Drive in Oxon Hill. Two days later, detectives and members of the PGPD’s Washington Area Vehicle Enforcement Team saw the vehicle in the 800 block of Irvington Street in Oxon Hill. The officers stopped the vehicle and took both occupants into custody. They are 18-year-old Jaheim Chase of Washington, D.C., and 18-year-old Adrian Price of Washington, D.C. Both are charged with motor vehicle theft, unauthorized use of a vehicle and related charges.

So far in 2023, the Prince George's County Police Department's Carjacking Interdiction Unit has charged 84 suspects in connection with carjacking cases. Of those, 51 are juveniles and 33 are adults.

Officers have arrested 248 suspects in connection with auto thefts in 2023, which is more arrests than all of 2022. Of the 2023 arrests so far, 110 are adults and 138 are juvenile. The number of juveniles arrested for auto theft so far this year is more than double the number in all of 2022. In 2022, PGPD charged a total of 66 juveniles.