WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — A D.C. man was sentenced Thursday to nine years in federal prison for a string of armed carjackings and robberies in March of 2023.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) for the District of Columbia said that 23-year-old Andre Rushing — also known as “Dre” — pleaded guilty on March 17 to carjacking and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
Rushing will have to serve five years of supervised release after his prison sentence.
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“As part of his guilty plea, Rushing admitted to perpetrating four separate carjackings and robberies. The spree only stopped when Rushing and his co-defendants were arrested in Fairfax County on March 30, 2023, as they attempted to flee police in a carjacked vehicle,” the USAO said in a statement…