Jordan Grice
Introduction
Jordan Grice, 19, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced on November 13, 2026, to seven and a half years in prison for an armed carjacking he committed in August 2024 — an offense carried out with a co-conspirator at gunpoint against a man sitting in his own vehicle in Northwest Washington, captured on surveillance video, and committed while Grice was wearing a Court Services GPS monitor . Grice, who was 17 at the time of the offense and charged as an adult, pleaded guilty on August 20, 2025, to one count of armed carjacking .
Background Information
The government’s evidence placed the carjacking at approximately 11:00 p.m. on August 16, 2024, in the 1700 block of 10th Street, NW . Grice and his co-conspirator exited a grey Hyundai and approached the victim, who was sitting in his vehicle, with a firearm . The case was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia under Superior Court case number 2024 CF3 010248, with the Metropolitan Police Department handling the investigation .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Convicted and sentenced. Grice pleaded guilty to armed carjacking and received a below-mandatory-minimum sentence under the Youth Rehabilitation Act.
At approximately 11:00 p.m. on August 16, 2024, Grice and his co-conspirator exited a grey Hyundai, approached the victim seated in his vehicle with a firearm, and Grice demanded the victim’s car keys and cell phone . The victim exited his vehicle, and the two entered and drove off, heading westbound in the 900 block of French Street, NW . The carjacking was captured on surveillance video — and at the time of the offense, Grice was wearing a Court Services GPS monitor that placed him at the offense location .
Had the case proceeded to trial, the government would have presented additional evidence tying Grice to a second armed carjacking later that same night . He was arrested on October 10, 2024, and had been in custody ever since .
At sentencing, the government requested the mandatory minimum term of 15 years’ incarceration and opposed a sentence under the Youth Rehabilitation Act . Superior Court Judge Robert Salerno sentenced Grice under the Youth Rehabilitation Act — which permits a sentence beneath the mandatory minimum — ordering seven and a half years in prison to be followed by three years of probation .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The sentence put the District’s youth-sentencing framework at odds with its own prosecutors: the U.S. Attorney’s Office had asked for 15 years, the mandatory minimum, and lost that request when the court invoked the YRA . The announcement was joined by Interim Chief Jeffery Carroll of the Metropolitan Police Department, and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro and Chief Carroll commended the MPD investigators and thanked Assistant United States Attorneys Rukiya Mohamed and Augustin Horner, who prosecuted the case .
Current Status
Grice has been sentenced to 7.5 years in prison plus three years of probation and remains in the custody he entered in October 2024 . The guilty plea to armed carjacking is a conviction; the government’s evidence about a second carjacking that night was never tested at trial because the case resolved by plea . No appeal was noted in the sentencing announcement .
Impact on Their Career/Life
Grice went from wearing a Court Services GPS monitor at seventeen to a convicted armed carjacker’s prison term at nineteen, with the GPS data itself becoming part of the evidence placing him at the scene . The seven-and-a-half-year term — below the 15-year mandatory minimum the prosecution sought — will keep him in federal-local custody into his mid-twenties, followed by three years of probation .
Sources
- “Teen Sentenced for 2024 Armed Carjacking” — U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Columbia / justice.gov, November 2026: source