Carjackers Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison

U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
June 3, 2010

PHILADELPHIA—Jakuba Janneh, 31, of Philadelphia, and Unisa Kamara, 21, of Dale City, Virginia, were sentenced to 15 years in prison for a string of carjackings in Montgomery and Delaware Counties, announced United States Zane David Memeger. Kamara was sentenced today; Janneh was sentenced yesterday. Two of the incidents happened on November 14, 2007, one in Havertown, Delaware County, the other in Montgomery Township, Montgomery County. The defendants pleaded guilty to two counts of carjacking and two counts of brandishing a firearm during a carjacking. Kamara is a native of Sierra Leone and legal permanent resident of the U.S. Janneh is a native of Sierra Leone against whom deportation proceedings were initiated in February 2006.

Co-defendant Omaru Sannoh, a Liberian native who was living in Yeadon, PA, is scheduled to be sentenced on June 4, 2010, by U.S. District Court Judge Jan E. DuBois.

This case was investigated by the FBI, the Haverford Township Police Department, the Montgomery Township Police Department, and the Philadelphia Police Department. It has been assigned to Assistant United States Attorney Paul L. Gray.