Grand Jury Indicts District Teen for Armed Carjacking and Other Offenses

            WASHINGTON – Alvin Halmon-Daniels, now 18, of Washington, D.C., was indicted by a Superior Court grand jury for armed carjacking and other charges related to a June 16, 2023 offense in Northeast Washington, D.C., announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Chief Pamela Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). On March 13, the grand jury returned an indictment charging the defendant, who was 17-years-old at the time of the carjacking, as an adult under Title 16. 

            In addition to armed carjacking, Halmon-Daniels is charged with robbery while armed, and two counts of possession of a firearm during a crime of violence. According to documents filed in court, at approximately 11:20 am on June 16, an unidentified co-conspirator drove his car in front of the complainant’s sedan in the 200 block of 13th Street NE. Halmon-Daniels got out of the co-conspirator’s car, armed with a handgun, and ordered the complainant to leave her property and get out of her car. Halmon-Daniels then drove off with the complainant’s vehicle and property, with his co-conspirator following in the suspect vehicle. MPD officers responded immediately, and tracked the carjacked vehicle to Southeast D.C., where it had crashed, and apprehended Halmon-Daniels nearby. The victim subsequently identified Halmon-Daniels as the gunman. At the time of his arrest on June 16th, Halmon-Daniels still had some of the victim’s property in his pockets.

            The Court released the defendant after the preliminary hearing.

            This case is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police Department. It is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney John Parron of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. 

            An indictment is merely an allegation, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.