{"id":319921,"date":"2026-11-03T02:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T02:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/319921\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T02:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T02:06:07","slug":"5-men-sentenced-for-an-extensive-carjacking-scheme-that-left-several-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/319921\/","title":{"rendered":"5 men sentenced for an extensive carjacking scheme that left several dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Five Philadelphia men have been sentenced for their roles in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/news\/local\/feds-charge-six-car-theft-ring-two-murders\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">series of carjackings and multiple murders<\/a> in and around the city. <\/p>\n<p>The year-long operation began in October 2021. Prosecutors said a rotating group of carjackers held up dozens of people at gunpoint to take their cars. One victim was targeted twice in the span of one month and shot in the leg both times. The goal was to sell stolen cars to African resellers.<\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 6, 2022, three of the five men who were sentenced Monday \u2014 Mikal McCracken, 24, Amin Muse, 24, and Aleem Abdul-Hakim, 23 \u2014 carjacked and fatally shot a former Marine. McCracken committed the murder.<\/p>\n<p>They sped off in the already running car without the key fob, so they went to a locksmith to make a new one for when the car eventually shut off. Shortly after the key was made, police located and recovered the car. The carjackers feared the locksmith would be identified through forensics and would talk to police, blowing their cover, so they conspired to kill him about six days later. A different group member, Jonathan Akubu, committed the murder on Feb. 12. <\/p>\n<p>McCracken, Muse and Abdul-Hakim were sentenced to life in prison. <\/p>\n<p>Two others were also sentenced: 28-year-old Dean Fosque to 86 years in prison for 10 carjackings, and Kavon Coleman to 35 years for four carjackings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Five Philadelphia men have been sentenced for their roles in a series of carjackings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18499,27377,783,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-319921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-armed-carjacking","tag-carjackings","tag-murder","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}