A 24-year-old Baltimore man has been convicted of carjacking and handgun charges in U.S. District Court in Baltimore and faces a mandatory life sentence under the "three strikes" law, federal prosecutors said.
A federal jury convicted Collin Hawkins on Wednesday of using a gun during a carjacking in the city on Nov. 22, 2006.
Sentencing is scheduled for April 25. Hawkins has previous convictions in state court on five drug-related charges in five years, which made him eligible for sentencing under the three-strikes law.
"Collin Hawkins will never again carry a gun, carjack or shoot anyone in Baltimore," U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein said in a statement.