Friday, April 12, 2013
Tasheik Ashanti Champean, of Maryland, was sentenced Friday for conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery and use of a firearm during a crime of violence causing death.
A Maryland man was sentenced to 30 years in prison Friday for his role in a 2010 Centreville home invasion that led to the death of a Manassas Park man. Tasheik Ashanti Champean, of Suitland, Md., conspired with two other men to rob the owner of a check cashing store at his Centreville residence on May 17, 2010. When Jose Rosales Cardona tried to stop the robbery, he was shot and killed. Champean pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of Virginia courthouse in Alexandria on Dec. 7 to conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery and use of a firearm during a crime of violence causing death. "What is now apparently true is that Champean is not the triggerman in the death of Jose Cardona," Champean's attorneys, Pleasant Brodnax III and Frank …
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for Tasheik Ashanti Champean.
A man accused of orchestrating a home invasion that ended in the murder of a heroic handyman will stand trial in federal court this December. On Aug. 9, District Judge Anthony Trenga ordered that the trial for Tasheik Ashanti Champean, of Maryland, begin on Dec. 10. Champean is charged with conspiracy to violate the Hobbs Act, two counts of use of a firearm during a violent crime and three counts of possession of ammunition by a convicted felon. Trenga further ordered that any motions in the case be filed by Oct. 12, and any hearing on the motions be held on Nov. 9. On Aug. 3, the Attorney General directed prosecutors not to seek the death penalty against Champean, according to a document filed by federal prosecutors in U.S. District …
Friday, June 1, 2012
Reynard Prather, 22, was sentenced in federal court Friday.
A Maryland man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role in a 2010 Centreville home invasion that led to the murder of Jose Rosales Cardona, a Manassas Park resident. Reynard Prather, 22, of Oxen Hill, MD, pleaded guilty in February to charges of conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery, use of a firearm in a crime of violence and use of a firearm in a crime of violence causing death. Cardona, a handyman at the Centreville residence, died while trying to defend his employers from the armed intruders. "I think that this was a very tragic thing that happened, and it goes to the heart of every person's worst nightmare, being the target of a home invasion," U.S. Attorney Neil MacBride said outside the courthouse, after the sentencing. U.S…
A federal grand jury has indicted Tasheik Ashanti Champean on weapons charges.
A federal grand jury has indicted a man on weapons charges for his alleged role in the 2010 death of a Manassas Park man during a home invasion at a Centreville mansion. The grand jury charged Tasheik Ashanti Champean with conspiracy to violate the Hobbs Act, using a firearm in a crime of violence and possession of ammunition by a prohibited person. The jury further alleged that the motivation was to rob the owners of the mansion, who Champean believed kept money on hand from their check-cashing business. During the scuffle, Jose Rosales Cardona was killed. Cardona, married and a father of two children, had moved to Manassas Park from Guatemala. He obtained steady work as a handyman and gardener at a home off of Compton Road in Centreville…
