A 23-year-old Baltimore man, identified as Trevon Gardner, has received a 12-year federal prison sentence following an armed carjacking incident involving a Baltimore Police Department (BPD) detective. U.S. District Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher handed down the sentence, including a five-year term of supervised release post-incarceration. The announcement was delivered by Erek L. Barron, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, with contributions from FBI Special Agent in Charge William J. DelBagno and BPD Commissioner Richard Worley.
Details revealed by the U.S. Attorney's Office indicate that the incident occurred on May 3, 2022, when Detective Aaron Cain, decked out in a training uniform, visited a 7-Eleven store in Cherry Hill. Exposed, wearing his badge, and armed at his waistband, surveillance footage captured Cain walking back to his unmarked BPD vehicle when Gardner and his associates initiated the violent confrontation.
The surveillance camera footage depicts how, after striking and grounding Cain just near the 7-Eleven, the suspects entered his vehicle and hurriedly fled the scene. The detective managed to get up and fire his service weapon at the departing vehicle. In their hasty escape, the carjackers lost control of the vehicle, resulting in it flipping and crashing about half a mile from the scene. Gardner and a juvenile male were apprehended nearby. The third individual eluded capture. By the wrecked police car authorities found a black Taurus 9mm handgun loaded with nine rounds near the wrecked police car.
