A Philly Man Has Been Sentenced To More Than 11 Years In Prison For Armed Carjacking

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia man has pulled an 11-plus-year federal prison term in connection with his committing both a carjacking and armed robbery in the city.

Rasheen Mainor, 21, was sentenced to more than 11 years and five months in prison, plus three years of supervised release, following a hearing in federal court Thursday before U.S. District Judge Petrese B. Tucker, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Mainor had previously been indicted in connection with a December 2019 carjacking in Northeast Philadelphia and an armed robbery of a West Philly corner store the following month, in January 2020.

Robbing a convenience store can be considered a federal offense.

Federal prosecutors said that during the carjacking, Mainor pointed a gun in the victim's face and then punched her before stealing her Honda CRV. A month later, Mainor and two accomplices used the stolen CRV to flee from the scene of an armed robbery they committed at the Dollar & Smoker's Point, also known as the Chester Mini Market, in West Philadelphia.

The three defendants made away with $500 in cash from the armed robbery.

"Carjacking a vehicle and then robbing a business at gunpoint threatens our collective safety," U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams said in a statement. "And if you commit these crimes in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, you are going to be met with a felony prosecution and long prison sentence, as is the case with this defendant who will now spend more than a decade behind bars for his crimes."

Federal agents said the carjacking and armed robbery were violent acts that targeted innocent civilians.

"These are offenses against society that undermine public safety and quality of life in his city," Jacqueline Magure, special agent in charge of the FBI's Philadelphia Division, said in a statement.