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By
Lindsay Mutzman [former]
, Sonia Vazquez [former] - July 19, 2024
Carjacking
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Court
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Daily Stories
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Suspects
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A carjacking defendant’s request for release following a seven-year-old bench warrant for a 2017 case was denied July 18 before DC Superior Court Judge Robert Salerno.
Lakeesa Cambridge, 37, is charged with conspiracy, carjacking, assault with intent to commit robbery, robbery, unauthorized use of a vehicle- crime of violence, and first-degree theft in her alleged involvement in a carjacking incident that occurred on Jan. 28, 2017 on the 100 block of Joliet Street, SW.
According to court documents, the victim met with Cambridge and another person, when the victim was struck on the head multiple times with a handgun inside his car. The victim fled the car seeking help.
In court, Michael Bruckheim, Cambridge’s defense attorney, brought up that his client has two bench warrants against her in Virginia and North Carolina and claimed she didn’t know she had these against her.
Bruckheim requested for Cambridge to be released and put on home confinement, to which the prosecution opposed stating Cambridge has “numerous notices of noncompliances.”
Parties are slated to meet on July 29.