A Washington, D.C., judge rejected lenient juvenile sentencing standards for a carjacker in a string of similar wins for Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro.
Twenty-two-year-old Dartanian Owens was sentenced to 13.5 years in prison on Monday for carjacking, robbery, possessing a firearm during a violent crime, and carrying a pistol without a license, the Department of Justice announced. Owens’s age at the time of his April 2025 crime spree made him eligible for lighter sentencing under D.C.’s Youth Rehabilitation Act of 2018, but Superior Court Judge Andrea Herzfeld became the latest judge in several cases to agree with Pirro’s sentence recommendations despite the law, which the prosecutor considers too soft on criminals.
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