20-Year-Old Norristown Man Pleads Guilty To Armed Carjacking Spree: Feds

NORRISTOWN, PA — A 20-year-old Norristown man pleaded guilty to a carjacking spree last year where he held numerous victims at gunpoint around the region.

Anthony Bell, 20, of Norristown, will be sentenced March 1.

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The spree began on Jan. 24, 2025 with the theft of a Chevy Cruze, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Four days later, Jan. 28, Bell drove that stolen car to an armed carjacking of an Infiniti QX80, authorities said. Bell then drove the stolen QX80 back to Norristown, and used it during a shooting incident on the 200 block of East Oak Street at around 6:16 p.m., according to authorities.

Bell crashed the QX80 into another vehicle while trying to flee the scene, and then carjacked a third vehicle, a white Chevrolet pick up truck, and fled the area, police said.

Bell and his cohorts then attempted two more carjackings while driving the Chevy, one in Whitemarsh and one in Philadelphia, but were unsuccessful, police said.

Wearing a mask and armed with handguns, Bell and several others, including 17-year-old Micus Golson, 18-year-old Drehcir Brown, 23-year-olds David Anthony Demko Jr. and Elija Collazo Jr., 20-year-olds Victor Bell Jr., 20 and Xavier Fuentes, 20, and 26-year-old Jhalil Allen, worked together to carjack a fourth vehicle in Philadelphia, a Nissan Rogue, investigators said.

The victim told police that four armed and masked men approached him and demanded he get out.

On Jan. 29, police tracked the stolen Nissan Rogue to the 200 block of Chain Street in Norristown, where they said it was being driven by Bell. When they tried to pull him over, he fled at a high rate of speed and nearly ran over two state troopers, officials said.

Bell made it to I-76 but he crashed into another vehicle. He, Brown, and Golson tried to run away, but were quickly captured, according to police.

Moments after they were taken into custody, officers saw the stolen Chevrolet Cruze heading onto I-76 from Conshohocken. They also refused to stop, fleeing until they crashed near mile marker 335.9, and fled into the woods, police said. They added that they later placed Allen at this crash site using phone records.

Allen escaped, however, and on Feb. 10, he and Demko were involved in a shooting on the 500 block of Stanbridge Street in Norristown, according to authorities, while the middle school was being dismissed.

Once again they fled at a high rate of speed, nearly striking a Norristown officer, police said.

The pair were taken into custody on Feb. 18 during a traffic stop, where they again tried to flee on foot but were captured. Police said they found Glocks with machine gun conversion devices on both of their persons.

Police said they found five more illegal firearms at the homes of the suspects when they completed search warrants. The weapons were analyzed by the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network, which were connected to nine separate incidents of gun violence in Norristown, according to the DA.

Bell faces a maximum sentence of life in prison with a mandatory minimum of 14 years behind bars.