Javon Roach, a 20-year-old resident of Washington, D.C., has entered a guilty plea in the U.S. District Court for his involvement in a series of violent armed carjackings and robberies that affected 17 victims throughout Washington D.C. in early 2023.
The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin, Jr., FBI Special Agent in Charge Sean Ryan from the Washington Field Office Criminal and Cyber Division, and Chief Pamela Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department.
Roach admitted to three counts of carjacking and two counts of brandishing a firearm to further a crime of violence. Judge Rudolph Contreras has scheduled Roach's sentencing for June 27, 2025. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 14 years, with the potential to serve up to 20.5 years.
Court documents reveal that Roach conducted six armed carjackings and five armed robberies between March 6 and March 28, 2023. During these crimes, he used firearms to intimidate and rob 16 victims. A prior conviction in Fairfax County, Virginia, for possession of a machine gun and assaulting a police officer stemmed from his arrest on March 30, 2023. This arrest followed a high-speed chase involving a stolen vehicle during which Roach rammed police vehicles before being apprehended with a handgun equipped with a machine gun conversion device.
The case was investigated by the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force alongside the Metropolitan Police Department and is being prosecuted by Trial Attorney Gaelin Bernstein and Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrea Duvall.
