Teen Carjacking Crew's Youngest Member Sentenced to 40 Years, 30 Without Parole

TOWSON—The youngest of a group of teens responsible for a 2022 series of armed carjackings, robberies and kidnappings was sentenced to 40 years in prison Monday. Thirty of those years are to be served without the possibility of parole.

Corique Moseley, now 18, was 14 and 1/2 years old when police arrested him and five others and charged them with dozens of crimes committed mostly in Baltimore City but some in the county.

The group ambushed people in their cars or on the street at gunpoint, stealing vehicles, phones, and cash. They forced some victims to withdraw money from ATMs or give them access to banking apps. One woman was sexually assaulted. The group would threaten to shoot and kill victims and their families if they didn’t comply, prosecutors said.

Some victims were so traumatized they moved out of the city, said Assistant Attorney General Nancy Frigo. Others lost their jobs when their cars were stolen. Several were too afraid to testify, she said.

"These are life-changing things that happen to people," Judge Robert Cahill said. "When you're just going along in life and suddenly you are faced with a group of people at gunpoint, telling you to give it up, nobody is ever the same after one of these."

In December 2025, a Baltimore County jury found Moseley guilty of 30 charges related to 11 incidents over eight days in November 2022, geographically ranging from west Baltimore up to Pikesville, spilling over into Baltimore County. His convictions included armed carjacking, kidnapping and participating in a criminal organization.

The jury also found Moseley guilty of a third-degree sex offense for sexually assaulting a victim in the back of a car.

“I did things because I was seeking love from the wrong people who I thought were my friends,” Moseley said in court. “I thought it was the definition of loyalty and that people would somehow love me more.”

Moseley, who has a history of mental illness from early childhood, told the judge he takes full accountability for his actions and apologized for the pain he caused to the victims and to his family.

 Assistant Attorney General Mark Meehan told Cahill about Moseley's infractions while in custody, including fighting and defiance. In one incident, Moseley threatened to "smack the shit" out of a corrections officer after refusing orders to lock in to his cell.

In a jail interview after two similar incidents in January, Meehan said, Moseley reportedly told a corrections officer, "I'm not going to get any time for this so I'm going to do this shit every day."

Judge Cahill said that attitude is one of the problems with the juvenile justice system.

"People go forward in life not believing that punishment is not going to be a consideration," Cahill said.

Cahill sentenced Moseley to a total of 40 years in prison. Thirty of those years were for six charges of use of a firearm in a crime of violence. Cahill sentenced Moseley to five years without parole on each of those six counts. He handed down an additional 10 years for the sexual assault charge. Upon his release, Moseley will be required to register as a sex offender.

Prior to his trial, Moseley had turned down a plea offer of 20 to 30 years in prison. All of his five co-defendants, ages 15-17 at the time of the offenses, entered guilty pleas last year. Moseley’s attorney, Assistant Public Defender Kim McGee, said her client turned down plea offers from the state because each offer included the sexual assault charge. At trial, McGee told jurors that a co-defendant, not Moseley, committed the sex offense.

The victim of the sexual assault said her attacker had a gun and forced her to engage in multiple sex acts in the back seat of a car. She identified Moseley in a photo array shortly after the incident.

Before sentencing, Cahill heard from the defense about Moseley’s difficult childhood. His mother, Stephanie Mills, said her son has a long history of mental illness and started having suicidal thoughts when he was six. She tried to get help for him, she said, but her son never got the services he needed. In one Department of Social Services placement, Mills said, her son’s hand was broken by a staff member and he sustained a concussion. The hand injury required surgery, she said. After that, he was scared to return to DSS juvenile placements, she said.

Moseley’s father, Mills said, had custody of Moseley for a period of his childhood and exposed him to guns, drugs, and “trap houses,” drug dens known for squalor and illegal activity. Moseley’s father was abusive, neglectful, and often would kick their son out of his home, she said. The boy would sleep in unsafe areas like abandoned buildings, Mills said.

Once he made her way back to her home, she said, he’d be hungry, dirty, sick and injured. By then, she said, he was self-medicating with drugs.

Moseley’s sentence was the longest of the six co-defendants. Rayquan Pierce was sentenced to 14 years in prison earlier this year; Shamar Anderson received 25 years; Jamarie Ward has pleaded guilty and will be sentenced in July; Ammar Shields was sentenced to seven years; and Tre’Quon Maye was sentenced to 15 years.

Judge Cahill said he would recommend Moseley be sent to the Patuxent Youth Facility.