A carjacking spree in Central Florida ended with a man going to prison. 31-year-old Lanorris B. Habersham wrecked the first vehicle he and a friend carjacked in Titusville, crashing the Ram pickup into a tractor-trailer on Interstate 95 before it rolled over into the median guardrail. In a hurry to escape, Habersham and the friend climbed out of the wreckage, pushed and punched a good Samaritan who had stopped to help them, and sped north in the man’s Chevy Malibu.
Six years after Habersham’s arrest in Georgia, a Brevard County jury found Habersham guilty of carjacking, capping a four-day trial in Viera in Central Florida. Prosecutors Jennifer Mostert and Sara Flenniken also convinced the jury that Habersham should be sentenced as a Prison Releasee Reoffender, a status that enables longer mandatory sentences.
Circuit Judge Laura Moody sentenced Lanorris Habersham immediately to 30 years in prison with no “gain” time off for good behavior. He received credit for six years already spent in the Brevard County Jail awaiting his trial, which was delayed by COVID-related court closures…