188-Month Sentence in Kidnapping, Carjacking and Gunpoint Assaults

WASHINGTON – Marquette Jackson, 25, of the District of Columbia, was sentenced November 24 in U.S. District Court to 188 months in prison in connection with his role in the June 2023 kidnapping, carjacking, and gunpoint assaults of two victims in Northeast Washington D.C., announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.

Jackson  –  aka “Glocky” and “Twin” – pleaded guilty on May 21 to kidnapping and aiding and abetting. In addition to the 188 month prison term, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered Jackson to serve five years of supervised release.

Joining in the announcement were FBI Assistant Director in Charge Darren B. Cox of the Washington Field Office and Chief Pamela A. Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department

According to court documents, on June 8, 2023, Jackson and others attended a birthday celebration at a Northwest nightclub then, in the early morning hours, returned to 4400 block of F Street SE.

The victims arrived on the block about 3 a.m. and entered a Mercedes SUV that belonged to one of them. Jackson and others attacked the two victims, removed their clothing, and confined them to prevent them from fleeing.

Jackson and others drove to a nearby area where at gunpoint they threatened and assaulted the victims at gunpoint. Jackson and others then drove one of the victims into Maryland. About 4:40 a.m., Jackson and his group arrived at an apartment complex in Suitland, Maryland, where one of the victims had a residence. Jackson and others burgled the victim’s apartment. An hour later, Jackson and the group arrived at another of the victim’s apartments in Waldorf. Jackson and the group staged an armed robbery at the residence and the occupant of the apartment as other members of the group held the victim in his Mercedes.

About 5:45 a.m., surveillance cameras recorded three individuals engaging in a shootout with the victim. The shootout left the victim and another individual fatally wounded. About 6:45 a.m., first responders found the victim’s Mercedes engulfed in flames in Capitol Heights, Maryland.

On Jan. 31, 2024, law enforcement arrested Jackson at his apartment on the 4900 block of  Nash Street NE, and recovered a Glock 22C .40 caliber firearm equipped with a machine gun conversion device.

This case was investigated by the FBI’s Washington Field Office’s Violent Crimes Task Force and Safe Streets Task Force, the Charles County Sheriff’s Office, the Metropolitan Police Department and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland.

The matter was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys John D. Crabb Jr. and Anthony Scarpelli of the Violence Crimes and Narcotics Trafficking section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

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