Shevirio Kavirion Childs-Young, 18, and William Charles Saffold, 20, are charged for his or her alleged roles in a sequence of robberies and carjackings.
MINNEAPOLIS — Two Minneapolis men are charged in their connection to quite a few violent carjackings and armed robberies concentrating on rideshare drivers.
Shevirio Kavirion Childs-Young, 18, and William Charles Saffold, 20, are charged with conspiracy, brandishing firearms whereas committing violent crimes, aiding and abetting carjacking, and aiding and abetting interference with commerce by theft. The expenses have been introduced Wednesday by Andrew M Luger, U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota.
“Last month, together with federal and native regulation enforcement companions, I introduced a brand new technique to deal with the rising violent crime in our communities,” said U.S. Attorney Luger in a press release. “Today’s indictment represents an necessary step ahead in that technique. As alleged, these two defendants led a carjacking ring that engaged in a sequence of violent, premeditated acts in opposition to Uber and Lyft drivers.”
According to courtroom paperwork, Childs-Young and Saffold have been allegedly a part of a sequence of carjackings and armed robberies between September 2021 and October 2021 that focused Uber and Lyft drivers. The paperwork say Childs-Young and Saffold are believed to be a part of a scheme the place rideshare drivers can be lured into particular areas after which pressured to unlock their cellphones, present passcodes and switch cash.
Court paperwork say that the folks concerned in the conspiracy would inform drivers to go to a particular location to choose up or drop off a passenger. The doc alleges that the folks would then maintain the drivers at gunpoint, the place they’d drive them to switch cash earlier than stealing the car at gunpoint.
A citywide security alert was issued final October in Minneapolis after a sequence of carjackings involving rideshare drivers. According to the Minneapolis Police Department, from mid-August to mid-October, greater than 40 drivers have been focused in robberies and/or carjackings.
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