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WASHINGTON – Jarod Ingram, 17, of Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to a 14-year prison term for a series of armed robberies he committed earlier this year against people responding to sales notices on “OfferUp, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu announced today.
Ingram was charged as an adult given the serious nature of his crimes. He pled guilty in April 2017, in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, to armed robbery and firearms offenses. He was sentenced on Sept. 29, 2017, by the Honorable Thomas J. Motley. Following his prison term, Ingram will be placed on five years of supervised release.
According to the government’s evidence, Ingram committed four robberies in less than three weeks of victims who set up meetings by using the digital application “OfferUp,” which permits users to buy or sell items. The victims were planning to purchase iPhones or a laptop computer that were listed on the site.
The first armed robbery took place at about 7:15 p.m. on Jan. 20, 2017, in the 300 block of Taylor Street NE. The victim was robbed of $300 that he had brought for an iPhone. The second crime took place at about 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 4, 2017, in the 400 block of Taylor Street NE, with another victim likewise surrendering $300 at gunpoint.
Two more armed robberies took place on the following day, Feb. 5, 2017. The first occurred at noon in the 600 block of Riggs Road NE; in this instance, Ingram robbed a woman of $500 and took an iPhone out of her pre-school son’s hands. Finally, at 3:50 p.m. on Feb. 5, 2017, Ingram robbed a man of $250 in the 4900 block of Third Street NW. An investigation by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) led to Ingram’s arrest the following day.
In announcing the sentence, U.S. Attorney Liu commended the work of those who investigated the case from the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). She also expressed appreciation for the efforts of those who handled the case from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, including Paralegal Specialist Donville Drummond, Victim/Witness Advocate James Brennan, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory Rosen, who investigated and prosecuted the matter.