Man who pushed woman out of car pleads guilty to carjacking - Topeka Capital Journal
, man pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges he pointed a gun at a woman and pushed her out of a driver’s side door before stealing her car, U. S. Attorney Barry Grissom said Tuesday. John Michael Devosha, 25, Kansas City, Kan. , pleaded guilty to one count of carjacking and one count of using a firearm in furtherance of carjacking. 22, 2013, he was already under federal indictment in another case when he wrecked a stolen pickup truck near 59th and Leavenworth Road in Kansas City, Kan. He abandoned the car and fled on foot in search of another car. A woman who was driving a 2002 Cadillac Deville was stopped in traffic congestion created by the wreck. Devosha used the handle of his gun to break the woman’s front passenger window and enter her car. Three days later, Pottawatomie Tribal Police arrested him in Jackson County, Kan. Both parties have agreed to recommend a sentence of 180 months to run consecutively to a 10-year sentence in the previous federal case. Grissom commended the Pottawatomie Tribal Police, the Kansas City, Kan. , Police Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Special Assistant U. S. Attorney Erin Tomasic, as well as agencies that participated in the arrest including officers from Brown, Jefferson and Jackson counties, as... Source: cjonline.com
