A Philadelphia man has been sentenced to over ten years in prison for his involvement in a carjacking incident. United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that Kavon Coleman, 23, received a sentence of ten years and one month, followed by five years of supervised release. The sentencing was handed down by United States District Court Judge Juan R. Sánchez.
Coleman was indicted on December 7, 2023, by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He faced charges of carjacking and aiding and abetting, as well as using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
The charges stemmed from an incident on February 17, 2022. Coleman and an accomplice committed a gunpoint carjacking of a woman who was waiting in her car at 3300 Fairmont Avenue in Philadelphia. The victim was approached around 5 p.m., with Coleman's accomplice demanding her keys at gunpoint while Coleman entered the driver's seat and drove away with the vehicle.
The following day, Coleman participated in a high-speed chase with police in another stolen vehicle before crashing into another driver. Authorities later found evidence including a ghost gun discarded by Coleman.
On July 9, 2024, after jurors had been selected for trial, Coleman pleaded guilty to the indictment.
The case was investigated by the Carjacking Task Force—a collaboration between the FBI, ATF, and Philadelphia Police Department—formed to address rising violent carjackings in Philadelphia since January 2022. Assistant United States Attorneys Katherine Shulman and Joseph LaBar are prosecuting the case.
