A 22-year-old Baltimore man was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 15 years in prison and three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to an August 2013 carjacking in the city's Belair Edison neighborhood, prosecutors said.
Derrick Chapman, of the 1900 block of E. 28th St., was originally charged with armed robbery, assault and attempted murder, but accepted a plea deal in which the charges were dropped and he was sentenced to 179 months on the carjacking charges, according to court documents.
Chapman approached a man getting out of a car in the 3400 block of Mayfield Ave. on Aug. 1, 2013, and forcibly demanded the man's car keys and money, the state U.S. Attorney's Office said.
He was wearing a mask that partially covered his face, but the victim recognized him before being threatened and ordered to run away, prosecutors said.
Chapman drove off in the victim's car, then crashed after fleeing from police who tried to pull him over in the 4100 block of Parkside Drive, prosecutors said. The mask was found with him and he was later identified as the suspect in the carjacking, prosecutors said.
A public defender assigned to Chapman could not immediately be reached Tuesday, and no phone number was listed for his Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello home.
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