Essex Man Sentenced to Prison for Union County Carjacking, Armed Robbery

An Essex County man was sentenced today to 121 months in prison for carjacking and robbing a Union County man at gunpoint.

On Dec. 26, 2012, Larry Brown, 24, of Newark approached an individual in a parked BMW X5 in Hillside, tapped on the window with a gun and ordered the victim to get out of the car, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman stated.

After the victim exited the vehicle, a second individual robbed the victim. Brown and the second perpetrator then entered the victim’s BMW X5 and fled the scene.

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The vehicle was located in East Orange later that day and law enforcement officers observed two individuals, one of whom was Brown, walking away from the carjacked vehicle, Fishman stated.

Brown later admitted that he carjacked the vehicle in Hillside earlier that day. Brown also told law enforcement officers where he put the keys to the carjacked vehicle and the gun he used during the carjacking, both of which were recovered by law enforcement officers.

Brown previously pled guilty before U.S. District Judge William J. Martini to an information charging him with one count of theft of a motor vehicle by force, violence, and intimidation, and one count of use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.

In addition to the prison term, Judge Martini sentenced Brown to five years of supervised release and ordered him to pay $1,850 in restitution.

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