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NEW ORLEANS MAN SENTENCED TO 17 ½ YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR CARJACKING
July 30, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TY PAYTON, age 19, of New Orleans, was sentenced today by U. S. District Judge A.J. McNamara to 17 ½ years in prison for two carjackings with the victims being an 87 year old woman and a 25 year old woman, announced U. S. Attorney Jim Letten.
PAYTON’S sentence represents an upward departure of 9 ½ years above his statutory sentencing guidelines, originally calculated by the U. S. Probation Office at a prison range of 78 - 97 months. Prosecutors asked Judge McNamara to depart upwardly, feeling that the guidelines inadequately reflected the serious nature of the offenses. Specifically, PAYTON was sentenced to 210 months in federal prison for the conspiracy, along with 180-month prison terms on counts two and three, to run concurrently with the 210-month term. Additionally, PAYTON was ordered to pay $9,300 restitution to his victims. Two of his accomplices are presently awaiting trial.
At the time of the carjackings, PAYTON was a federal juvenile. However, in November, 2007, he was adjudicated as an adult allowing the United States Attorney to seek PAYTON’S indictment as an adult offender. On March 5, 2008, PAYTON pled guilty to the three charges filed against him - one count of conspiracy to use firearms in relation to carjackings; and two separate counts of carjacking.
According to the count documents, on July 21, 2006, TY PAYTON conspired with two juveniles to use firearms during federal crimes of violence, specifically two carjackings that occurred on July 21, 2006, the first in Jefferson Parish and the second in Orleans Parish. In the first incident, PAYTON, along with the juveniles, carjacked an 87 year old woman who was returned to her home in Jefferson in her 2001 Nissan Sentra after accosting and threatening her at gun-point unless she gave up the keys to her vehicle.
Shortly thereafter, PAYTON, along with the juveniles, crashed the Sentra in New Orleans and then threatened at gun-point and carjacked a 1997 Chevy Malibu belonging to a 25 year old woman who leaving work.
This case was investigated by Special Agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives along with the officers of the New Orleans Police Department. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Michael E. McMahon, Mark A. Miller, and Sean Toomey.
