Four Plead Guilty in Two St. Louis Area Carjackings Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri Date: 5 September 2024 Subjects: American Government , Crime

ST. LOUIS – Three men have admitted participating in one carjacking and a second has admitted involvement in two St. Louis area carjackings.

Jaymond Johnson, 20, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis Thursday to one count of carjacking and one count of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.

Ramon D. Davis, 20, pleaded guilty in July to two counts of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence and two counts of carjacking. Tristan T. Davis, 20, and Montrell M. Jackson, 21, of Northwoods, each pleaded guilty to one count of carjacking and one count of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.  Tristan Davis pleaded guilty in June and Jackson pleaded guilty in December.

On Nov. 7, 2021, Ramon Davis, Montrell Jackson and a juvenile were walking past an alley near Grand Avenue and Bates Street in south St. Louis when they spotted an older man and decided to steal his car, the plea agreements say. Davis was armed with a Canik TP9 handgun that he had stolen the prior month and Jackson had a Ruger MAX-9 handgun. Davis brandished the Canik and the assailants demanded the victim’s 2006 Mazda3. The next day, the Saint Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s Real Time Crime Center license plate recognition system located the stolen car. When St. Louis police caught up, Hazelwood police were pursuing the car, which was being driven by Ramon Davis. After nearly hitting a police car, Davis lost control and spun out in the middle of an intersection, but regained control and continued fleeing for more than two miles. Eventually, the Mazda struck a metal storage container at North Florissant Avenue and Branch Street and was heavily damaged. Both Davis and Jackson fled from the crash but were later arrested. Officers found a black satchel inside the Mazda that held both guns used in the carjacking. 

On Nov. 11, 2022, Ramon Davis, Tristan Davis and Jaymond Johnson were in a stolen BMW when Tristan Davis spotted a 2017 Mercedes GLS550 SUV parked in front of a CVS located on Watson Road on Webster Groves. Ramon Davis had a red/burgundy AR-style pistol and confronted an occupant of the Mercedes with it before pushing her to the ground, breaking her finger. Ramon and Tristan Davis drove away in the carjacked Mercedes, their plea agreements say. 

Johnson is scheduled to be sentenced December 12. The carjacking charges carry a penalty of up to 15 years in prison and the brandishing charges carry a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of seven years consecutive to any other sentence.

The St. Louis County Police Department, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the FBI, the Webster Groves Police Department, the Hazelwood Police Department and the Normandy police Department investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Zachary Bluestone and Cassandra Wiemken prosecuted the case.

This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and gun violence, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everyone. On May 26, 2021, the Department launched a violent crime reduction strategy strengthening PSN based on these core principles: fostering trust and legitimacy in our communities, supporting community-based organizations that help prevent violence from occurring in the first place, setting focused and strategic enforcement priorities, and measuring the results.

Robert Patrick, Public Affairs Officer, robert.patrick@usdoj.gov.

Updated September 5, 2024