BALTIMORE — A Baltimore man on Monday pleaded guilty to federal racketeering charges.
Prosecutors say 27-year-old Karon Foster headed a crew that committed 13 armed carjackings and robberies that left three people dead and another paralyzed, throughout a four-month span in 2019.
The paralyzed victim is Baltimore Police Sergeant Isaac Carrington, who was off-duty on his own front lawn speaking with a neighbor when Foster and his associate Rashaud Nesmith got out of a car and tried to rob him.
When Carrington tried to run, he was shot multiple times. Court documents at the time revealed the suspects took Carrington's personal off-duty gun during the incident.
A couple months earlier, Foster and associate Christopher Santiago killed Taven Lowther during a similar robbery on Franconia Drive.
“Over just four months in 2019, Karon Foster and his crew were responsible for a violent spree of 13 armed carjackings and robberies throughout Baltimore, including three that killed innocent victims and another that left a victim paralyzed,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Jonathan F. Lenzner. “Foster and his co-conspirators used firearms and fear to steal cars, property and most tragically the lives of other human beings."
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Foster's plea deal calls for between 30 and 40 years in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher still needs to sign off.
Sentencing hasn't yet been scheduled.
