Maryland Casino Kidnapper Gets 13-Year Sentence, Feds Announce

A co-defendant in a MD cassino snatch and damn assault was sentenced this calendar week to prison. His incarceration is for 13 years.

Upon his release, Darius “Mup” David Herbert Lawrence Young, 30, of Washington, DC, testament be placed on quint years of supervised release, Maryland federal Judge Saint George J. Hazel said when sentencing Young on Monday.

Young was sentenced for confederacy to institutionalise kidnapping and ownership of firearms and ammunition by a felon, according to US Attorney for Free State Erek L. Barron. Brigham Young had inward his ownership an assault-rifle-style pistol, and trey other firearms.

Authorities hold not revealed the indistinguishability of the cassino inwards Maryland.

Violent Scheme

On Feb. 3, 2021, Darius Young, Anthony Erik Hebron, Christopher Young, Lamar Perkins, and another suspect collaborated inward a patch to snatch a victim from the casino, prosecutors said.

Hebron and the unnamed suspect met the victim at the casino. They promised to have the dupe women if he went with them to Washington, DC. He in agreement(p) and got into the car.

Hebron and then aimed a gun at the victim. Several suspects allegedly stole the victim’s wallet, cubicle phone, hotel way key, and watch.

They then allegedly ordered the victim to round over the encipher for his hotel safe. He refused. Hebron allegedly struck the dupe inward the forehead with the firearm.

He and then relented. The dupe told his assailants the code. Some of the suspects stole items from the hotel room.

The victim so was forced to depart into a boiler room inner a Washington, DC flat building. The victim was repeatedly beaten, threatened, and asked for information well-nigh personal items inward the hotel room, authorities said.

Later, suspects stole a gaming system, $1,500 worth of gambling casino chips, and around $6,000 in immediate payment from the hotel room, prosecutors said.

The victim eventually was able-bodied to leave of absence the basement. He suffered a bloody wound on his forehead, a disordered nose, and cuts on his rima oris and eyeball while abducted, prosecutors added.

The followers month, Darius Young’s abode was searched. Authorities found two loaded .40-caliber pistols, as easily as a .223-caliber assault-rifle-style side arm loaded with 23 rounds of ammo, prosecutors said. The assault-rifle-style shooting iron was a “ghost gun” — indicating it was in private made, prosecutors explained.

A loaded 9mm handgun and around 10 grams of suspected tornado cocaine were also seized inward the residence. type A digital scale and firearms cartridge with ennead rounds of 9mm ammo were also taken by authorities as evidence.

Prison Sentences

Anthony “Pain” Hebron, 29, Lamar Jamal Perkins, 28, and Saint Christopher Gracie Allen Young, “40,” eld 27, for each one of Washington, DC, feature pled shamefaced to conspiracy to practice kidnapping in the case, prosecutors said.

Hebron is expected to follow sentenced to 14 years on Aug. 8.  St. Christopher Whitney Young was sentenced to 126 months inward prison on May 4.  Perkins was sentenced to 10 years inwards prison on May 23.