FORT MYERS, Florida — A 39-year-old woman from Orange Park has been sentenced to more than a decade in federal prison for her involvement in an armed carjacking in Lehigh Acres.
Miranda Lee Pryor received a sentence of 10 years and 5 months from U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell for the May 2025 incident, according to a press release from the United States Attorney’s Office. Pryor had pleaded guilty on October 29, 2025, to charges of carjacking, brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Her co-defendant, 36-year-old Rebecca Lea Stacey, of West Palm Beach, was previously sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in federal prison for her role in the same case.
Court records reveal that on the afternoon of May 11, 2025, Stacey and Pryor carjacked a man waiting in his vehicle outside a store in Lehigh Acres. During the incident, Pryor brandished a firearm as they stole the victim’s vehicle and fled the scene. Later that day, law enforcement located the vehicle on I-75, where Stacey led police on a high-speed chase through Collier County before crashing. Both Stacey and Pryor were apprehended shortly after the accident. During the pursuit, Pryor, who was the front-seat passenger, discarded the firearm used in the carjacking out of the car window, and it was later recovered on the highway…