Kevin Freeman, a 20-year-old resident of Washington D.C., received a five-year prison sentence today following his guilty plea for an armed robbery on the Metro, as per a statement by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro. Freeman, who had previously pleaded guilty to one count of robbery while armed on May 5, 2025, encountered the firm hand of justice as Judge Jennifer Di Toro handed down a 60-month term to be followed by five years of supervised release at the Superior Court.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that Freeman’s sentence is set to run consecutively with a probation revocation sentence from a separate Metro robbery incident in June of 2024, totaling an aggregate sentence of 90 months’ incarceration. Freeman, who seemed to exhibit a pattern of targeting commuters, had his hopes of a reduced sentence under the Youth Rehabilitation Act extinguished due to his repeated offenses.
Details provided by the prosecution revealed that Freeman had assaulted a 72-year-old man on January 16, 2025, after boarding an orange line train near 10:56 p.m. He waited for the opportune moment when seats emptied, and with a large knife, he pressed adjacent to his elderly target, demanding money, but the victim, despite being half a century older, nearly thwarted the theft after a two-minute struggle during which Freeman managed to seize an iPhone 15 and some cash before escaping…