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 …
Friday, December 7, 2012
Tasheik Ashanti Champean pleaded guilty to a Hobbs Act Conspiracy and using a firearm in a crime of violence. Prosecutors dropped a third weapons charge in the plea agreement.
A Maryland man pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to his role in a 2010 Centreville home invasion that resulted in the death of a local man. Tasheik Ashanti Champean pleaded guilty to a Hobbs Act conspiracy and using a weapon in a crime of violence. Prosecutors signed a plea agreement with Champean and dropped the third charge against him, possession of ammunition by a prohibited person. Champean's trial was originally scheduled to begin Monday in U.S. District Court, but he instead appeared in court Friday to enter his plea before Judge Anthony Trenga. During the home invasion off Compton Road, Jose Rosales Cardona, a Manassas Park handyman and immigrant from Guatemala, died trying to protect his American employers, according to …
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
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…
