Christopher Light, 22, from the District of Columbia, has been sentenced to 90 months in federal prison following a series of violent crimes that occurred within a 24-hour period. The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.
Light entered a guilty plea on March 24, 2025, to one count of carjacking and one count of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. In addition to his prison sentence, Chief Judge James E. Boasberg ordered Light to serve three years of supervised release.
The sentencing announcement included statements from Special Agent in Charge Anthony Spotswood of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Washington Field Division and Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Chief Pamela A. Smith.
According to court records, on February 4, 2024, around 6:45 p.m., Light and an accomplice confronted a man at gunpoint in a Wharf District parking lot. The two suspects threatened the victim with firearms and took his iPhone 15 Pro as well as two gold chains before fleeing in a white Audi SUV.
In the early hours of February 5, Light and three others arrived in the same Audi SUV at the 900 block of Thayer Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland. They approached a Mercedes E300 with two occupants inside. Brandishing guns, they demanded that the occupants exit their vehicle and surrender their belongings. Items stolen included designer handbags and wallets as well as jewelry and cellphones. Two members of the group drove away in the stolen Mercedes while others left in the Audi SUV.
Later that day at about 3 p.m., Light participated in an attempted robbery targeting an individual using an ATM on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE. After confronting the victim at gunpoint with another person, they ordered him not to move and to hand over his belongings; however, nothing was taken when the man ran away.
Law enforcement arrested Light on March 25, 2024. During a search of his residence officers found an AM-15 multi-caliber pistol with a loaded magazine containing fifty rounds inside a freezer.
The case was investigated by both ATF and MPD agencies and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Cameron Tepfer.
“Don’t move, give me that sh--,” is what Light reportedly told one ATM victim during one incident according to court documents.
