Victim Was Warming Up Car When Approached By Camara
Brandishing A Firearm
Baltimore, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander
sentenced Mouhamed Camara, age 29, of Reisterstown, Maryland to 10 years in
federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release for Carjacking,
and Using, Carrying, and Brandishing a Firearm During and in Relation to a
Crime of Violence.
The sentence was announced by United States Attorney for the
District of Maryland Robert K. Hur; Special Agent in Charge Jennifer C. Boone
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Baltimore Field Office; and Chief
Melissa R. Hyatt of the Baltimore County Police Department.
According to Camara’s plea agreement, on January 9, 2018,
the victim had started her 2010 Toyota Corolla to warm the engine outside of
her home in Reisterstown, Maryland. She
was scraping ice off of the windows when she spotted Camara on the other side
of the street. When she turned around,
Camara pointed a gun in her face, but did not say a word. The victim ran for safety. Camara entered the victim’s car, which
contained her purse and cellphone, and drove away.
Baltimore County Police Officers later located the vehicle
in the area of an apartment complex in Reisterstown, Maryland. Detectives placed a GPS tracker on the
carjacked vehicle to track its movements.
A short time later, the vehicle was observed traveling towards Hanover
Pike and onto I-795 South. Detectives
followed the vehicle onto I-695 where they stopped the vehicle. Camara was the operator and sole occupant of
the vehicle.
Detectives obtained a search warrant for Camara’s
cellphone. A search of the cellphone
revealed a photo of a black semi-automatic handgun that was consistent with the
description of the firearm provided by the victim. There was also a photo of the defendant’s
girlfriend stamped with a geolocation near a residence in Reisterstown,
Maryland, taken on January 8, 2018, the day prior to the carjacking.
On January 10, 2018, detectives went to the residence and
found Camara’s girlfriend and another male exiting the residence. Detectives approached and spoke with
them. Camara’s girlfriend indicated that
she and Camara had been living at the residence and had a black backpack inside
the residence.
Detectives obtained a search warrant for the residence and
recovered a loaded handgun, along with a black backpack, and some clothing
belonging to Camara. The firearm seized
matched the firearm seen in the photo on Camara’s phone.
United States Attorney Robert K. Hur commended the FBI's
Baltimore Field Office and the Baltimore County Police Department for their
work in the investigation. Mr. Hur
thanked Assistant U.S. Attorney John Sippel, who is prosecuting the case.
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