11 Years For Philly Man Who Carjacked 2 Rideshare Drivers

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia man will spend nearly a dozen years in prison for carjacking two rideshare drivers.

United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero said Rashad Johnson-Price, 20, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 135 months in prison, five years of supervised release, and a $300 special assessment.

Johnson-Price pleaded guilty in September 2023 to two counts of carjacking and one count of carrying and using a firearm during, and in relation to, the commission of a crime of violence. He was indicted in January 2023.

In court last year, Johnson-Price admitted to carjacking a Lyft driver with an accomplice at about 4 a.m. on Aug. 9, 2022, in the Frankford section of Philadelphia. As part of his plea, Johnson-Price also admitted to carrying and using a firearm to commit this offense.

Then, on Aug. 13, 2022, he and an accomplice carjacked an Uber driver at about 5 a.m.

In both instances, Johnson-Price and an accomplice requested a ride-share vehicle and when they arrived at or near their destination, they carjacked the vehicle from the ride-share driver at gunpoint.

"The victims in this case were just trying to make an honest living when two criminals threatened them at gunpoint," Romero said. "It must have been terrifying, especially in the early hours of the morning, with few other people around. We and our partners on the Philadelphia Carjacking Task Force will not allow carjackers like Rashad Johnson-Price to commit these violent crimes with impunity. He’ll now be living his 20s behind bars."

"Luring victims through their ride-share service to take their cars and livelihood at gunpoint was a particularly awful crime that will not go unpunished," Eric J. DeGree, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ Philadelphia Field Division, said. "Working with our Philadelphia Carjacking Task Force partners, ATF Philadelphia Field Division applies our unique forensic and investigative tools to ensure justice for the victims and to make our communities safer."