CHARLOTTE, N.C. – U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr.
sentenced a Charlotte man today on charges stemming from two 2012 carjackings committed
in Charlotte, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western
District of North Carolina. Antonio Cordiara McClary, 25, of Charlotte, was
sentenced to 148 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised
release.
Wayne L. Dixie, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Charlotte Field Division,
and Chief Rodney D. Monroe of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
(CMPD) join U.S. Attorney Tompkins in making today’s announcement.
According to court documents and today’s sentencing hearing:
McClary carjacked a woman on January 5, 2012, and forced her
to drive to her bank and
withdraw $500 from an ATM. During the carjacking, McClary
pointed what appeared to be a
firearm at the victim’s head. Following the forced
withdrawal of money from the ATM,
McClary forced the victim into the trunk of her 2010 Honda
Accord while he drove around for
thirty minutes. McClary later abandoned the car with the
victim locked in the trunk and told her
not to get out. An hour later, the victim was able to escape
the trunk and call police.
On January 20, 2012, McClary confronted a second woman who
was getting out of her
car in her apartment parking lot and forced her back into
her car with what appeared to be a
firearm and a knife. McClary took the victim’s car keys and
drove the woman to the bank ATM,
forcing her to withdraw $500. Later, while driving from the
ATM, McClary threatened to
“splatter the victim’s brains all over the windshield.”
Following the carjacking, McClary
abandoned the victim in her car and told her not to report
the carjacking to the police because he
knew where she lived and said he would come back and kill
her. In both incidents, what
appeared to be a firearm was later determined to have been
an air rifle that fired pellets. In April
2013, McClary pleaded guilty to two counts of carjacking.
In announcing the sentence, Judge Conrad stated that the
offenses were a “heinous couple of carjackings that caused unfathomable terror
to the victims.” Judge Conrad noted that he imposed the 148 month sentence to
protect the public from further crimes of the defendant.
The defendant has been in federal custody and will be
transferred to the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons upon designation of
a federal facility. Federal sentences are served without the possibility of
parole.
The investigation was handled by ATF and CMPD. The
prosecution for the government was handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert
Gleason of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Charlotte.
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