A Washington, D.C., judge rejected lenient juvenile sentencing standards for a carjacker in a string of similar wins for Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro.Twenty-two-year-old Dartanian Owens was sentenced to 13.5 years in prison on Monday for carjacking, robbery, possessing a firearm during a violent crime, and carrying a pistol without a license, the Department of Justice announced. Owens’s age at the time of his April 2025 crime spree made him eligible for lighter sentencing under D.C.’s Youth Rehabilitation Act of 2018, but Superior Court Judge Andrea Herzfeld became the latest judge in several cases to agree with Pirro’s sentence recommendations despite the law, which the prosecutor considers too soft on criminals.Judges tend to give Youth Rehabilitation Act-inspired sentences in most cases, according to the latest available data. Courts imposed them on 60% of eligible defendants between 2019 and 2020, declining them for 40%, D.C.’s Criminal Justice Coordinating Council found.
Dartanian Owens, 22, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced yesterday to 13.5 years in prison for a carjacking and robbery spree between April 6-8, 2025, in Northeast and Southeast Washington D.C., announced @USAttyPirro. pic.twitter.com/xp7c8um20f— U.S. Attorney DC (@USAO_DC) August 25, 2026
