A Hyattsville man convicted in connection with a Northeast D.C. attack was sentenced to 13 years in prison, officials said.
Emmanuel W. Guzeh, 26, was sentenced Monday in D.C. Superior Court. He was convicted in May of assault with intent to commit robbery, kidnapping, assaulting a police officer and related weapons offenses, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington.
Guzeh and several accomplices were charged with pistol whipping two men in Northeast D.C. in October 2010 and robbing the men at gunpoint. The assailants fled the scene in two cars. The car in which Guzeh was traveling crashed into a dumpster behind an apartment building in the 4900 block of Benning Road SE, prosecutors said. As he fled, Guzeh pointed a handgun at pursuing police.
When authorities searched Guzeh’s car, they found duct tape, flex-cuffs, a .357 revolver, two boxes of ammunition, and a bullet-resistant vest.
Officers found just over $2,000 worth of heroin, as well as cocaine and oxycodone in the trunk of the car that Guzeh and the other assailants tried to break into, officials said, and the car’s owner was convicted of unlawful possession with intent to distribute heroin and related charges.
