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Escambia Man Pleads Guilty To Carjacking
May 11, 2011
An Escambia County man has pleaded guilty on carjacking charges and now faces seven years to life in prison.
Terrence James Earl Scott, 20, entered the plea to a charge of carjacking while armed with a handgun, according to Pamela C. Marsh, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
On August 2, 2010, the carjacking victim had been unpacking his rental car at the Howard Johnson motel on Pensacola Boulevard, when Scott approached him and asked to borrow his cell phone. Scott next asked for a cigarette, and the victim handed him one. Moments later, Scott pulled out a silver handgun and instructed the victim to empty his pockets. The victim told Scott he did not have anything in his pockets.
Scott replied, “I will shoot you, man.” Scott struck the victim’s head with the gun, then told him to start the car and open the car trunk. The victim complied. When Scott ordered the victim to get inside the trunk, the victim refused, fearing he would be killed. Scott jumped into the car and drove away. A little more than 24 hours later, on Wednesday, August 4, Scott crashed the stolen car and abandoned it in a back yard in a residential area, while being pursued by Escambia County Sheriff’s deputies.
Scott fled the car on foot and was captured by the deputies within minutes of the crash. The handgun Scott had used in the carjacking was found behind the driver’s seat of the rental car.
Scott’s sentencing is scheduled for July 19, 2011, before Senior United States District Judge Roger Vinson. Scott faces a maximum of 15 years imprisonment for carjacking and a mandatory minimum sentence of seven years up to life imprisonment for using a firearm in furtherance of that offense. The seven-year sentence must be served consecutively to the carjacking sentence, according to prosecutors.
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4 Responses to “Escambia Man Pleads Guilty To Carjacking”
DON’T swallow that key!!!! It will eventually come out! MELT it down!!
@joe
I certainly hope so because I would hate to think anyone who sticks a gun
in someone’s face to take something that doesn’t belong to them should
have to go away and never be seen again. It’s my belief it’s only a matter
of time before someone looks at him wrong and he pulls the trigger on
some innocent.
Lock him up and somebody swalllow that key.
good
“Terrence James Earl Scott, 20, entered the plea to a charge of carjacking while armed with a handgun”
since this involved a gun while comiting a felony he is looking at serious time in jail. This is one of the cases that falls under a mandated minimum sentence in florida.