PHILADELPHIA COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — Five Pennsylvania men were convicted as part of an alleged carjacking ring including dozens of carjackings, shootings, and two murders.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania announced the conviction Thursday.
Five men from the Philadelphia area were tried in federal court for numerous armed carjackings in which they sold stolen cars to buyers who shipped the vehicles overseas.
Mikal McCracken, 24; Amin Muse, 24; Aleem Abdul-Hakim, 23; Dean Fosque, 28; and Kavon Coleman, 23 were all convicted at trial.
“These defendants ran one of the most extensive and terrible carjacking rings in American history that terrorized and, in some cases killed, its victims. When viewed by the sheer scale and volume of violent robberies, this prosecution represents perhaps the most successful carjacking prosecution in the history of the Department of Justice,” said U.S. Attorney David Metcalf. “That campaign of dread is done. The streets we walk and drive on are now safer thanks to the fantastic work of the FBI and all of our law enforcement partners on the Carjacking Task Force.”
Federal authorities say, between Oct. 2021 and Oct. 2022, groups of rotating carjackers, including the five men at trial, committed dozens of carjackings at gunpoint. Many of the carjackings were in Southwest and Northeast Philadelphia as well as surrounding suburbs.
McCracken, Muse, and Abdul-Hakim were also accused of shooting and killing a man, a former U.S. Marine, on Feb. 6, 2022. Days later, McCraken and Muse killed a locksmith who fashioned a replacement key for a stolen car, believing he would cooperate with law enforcement investigating the first murder.
“This case represented some of the very worst of what we saw during the rise of violent carjackings: calculated, coordinated, and completely indifferent to human life,” said Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin J. Bethel. “These individuals didn’t just steal cars — they terrorized neighborhoods, took innocent lives, and attempted to silence witnesses to cover their crimes.”
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The men will be sentenced at a later date and face maximum possible sentences of life in prison.
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