Jamelle Antoine Parker, 36, was sentenced to 105 months in federal jail.
BEAUMONT, Texas — An Amarillo man who pleaded responsible to a number of federal violations within the Eastern District of Texas after a violent crime spree from Beaumont to Lufkin in 2023 has been sentenced to federal jail.
Jamelle Antoine Parker, 36, pleaded responsible to carjacking and was sentenced to 105 months in federal jail by U.S. District Decide Marcia A. Crone.
On April 1, 2023, Parker approached a lady as she was placing air in her tires at a fuel station on Washington Boulevard in Beaumont, in keeping with an Japanese District of Texas information launch.
Parker demanded that the lady give him her automobile whereas reaching in his waistband for what the lady assumed was a gun.
She ran to a close-by retailer and Parker stole her automobile and fled to the Criss Cross comfort retailer on Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway.
Parker entered the shop, informed the clerk he had a firearm and demanded cash from the register whereas threatening to kill the clerk, in keeping with the discharge.
The clerk complied and gave Parker the cash. Parker then left the shop within the stolen automobile and drove to Lufkin.
In Lufkin he crashed the automobile into the Huge’s comfort retailer on West Frank Avenue.
Parker entered the comfort retailer and once more informed the clerk he had a firearm and demanded cash. As soon as he obtained the cash, Parker ran to a close-by Whataburger.
There, he approached a automobile within the drive-through lane and demanded the motive force give him the automobile, whereas asking the motive force if he “needed to die at this time.”, in keeping with the discharge.
When the motive force obtained out of the automobile, Parker grabbed him by the neck and pushed him apart, the launched stated.
Parker then started rushing away within the automobile, in the direction of a responding officer.
The officer shot Parker within the legs and sustained non-life threatening accidents.
After a short chase Parker crashed the automobile and was taken into custody.
On Could 3, 2023 Parker was indicted by a federal grand jury.
On April 18, 2024, U.S. Legal professional Diggs introduced the newly shaped Carjacking Task Force within the Japanese District of Texas.
“This case is a part of Challenge Protected Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing collectively all ranges of regulation enforcement and the communities they serve to scale back violent crime and gun violence, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everybody,” the discharge states.
This case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Beaumont Police Division and the Lufkin Police Division. This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Legal professional Russell James, in keeping with a launch.
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