Violent 24-Hour Crime Spree Nets District Man 90-Month Term in Federal Prison

WASHINGTON - Christopher Light, 22, of the District of Columbia, was sentenced today to 90 months in federal prison for his role in a 24-hour violent crime spree that included a gunpoint carjacking and armed robberies, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.

Light pleaded guilty March 24, 2025, to one count of carjacking and one count of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. In addition to the 90-month prison term, U.S. District Court Chief Judge James E. Boasberg ordered Light to serve three years of supervised release.

Joining in the announcement was Special Agent in Charge Anthony Spotswood of the Washington Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and Chief Pamela A. Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).

According to court documents, on February 4, 2024, about 6:45 p.m., Light and a co-conspirator ambushed a man in a Wharf District parking lot. Light was armed with a handgun; his co-conspirator wielded an AR-style firearm. Light and the co-conspirator threatened the man and took his iPhone 15 Pro and two gold chains with pendants. Light and his accomplice fled in a white Audi SUV.

Early the next morning, Light and three other individuals pulled into the 900 block of Thayer Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland, in the same Audi SUV, and stopped behind a 2017 Mercedes E300 occupied by two individuals. Brandishing firearms, Light and the others ordered the occupants of the Mercedes to get out and turn over their possessions. Light and the others stole a Gucci handbag, a Louis Vuitton wallet, Bulgari watch, a gold necklace, a black Mark Jacobs bag, three cellphones, and various identification cards and credit cards. Two of the individuals with Light stole the Mercedes, while the others fled in the white Audi SUV.

Later on February 5, 2024, at about 3 p.m., Light and another individual attempted to rob a man who was attempting to withdraw money from an ATM in the 2000 Block of Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, SE. Light and the other individual parked and exited a white Audi SUV and approached the man from behind. At gunpoint, Light and his accomplice ordered the man: "Don't move, give me that sh--." The man ran away and nothing was stolen from him.

Law enforcement arrested Light on March 25, 2024. From a freezer in Light's residence, officers recovered an AM-15, multi-caliber pistol along with a black magazine containing 50 rounds of ammunition.

This case was investigated by the ATF and the MPD. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Cameron Tepfer.

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