Rockville, North Bethesda Carjacker Sentenced

The man behind a carjacking spree in Rockville and North Bethesda last year was sentenced to 35 years.

Byron Deshane Govan, 28, of White Plains, MD was sentenced Thursday. He pleaded guilty to charges in September.

The chain of carjackings began almost a year ago at a Wells Fargo ATM at 110 Congressional Lane in Rockville, Patch has reported.

At around 10 p.m. Sept. 27, 2012, a 69-year-old woman at a walk-up teller said she looked back at her car and saw a stranger sitting in her Toyota Prius, according to court records and prior statements from Montgomery County police.

The vicitm said the man inside locked the doors and claimed to have a gun. He drove off with her car as she called out for police, court records state.

The Prius was later linked to a robbery at an Alexandria, VA Dunkin' Donuts on Oct. 11, 2012, police said in a statement of charges.

Police said the stolen Prius was found torched.

The Alexandria case has yet been resolved.

On Oct. 31, 2012 another woman was robbed and carjacked at gunpoint at a Rockville Pike parking lot near White Flint Mall.

According to charging documents, a man ordered the woman out of her Lincoln Aviator, took her wallet and her acquaintance’s wallet, and then drove off in her vehicle.

Police spotted the vehicle on the Capital Beltway and pursued it to Downtown Silver Spring, where the car was ditched and the carjacker got away on foot, Rockville Patch has reported.

Police said Govan developed as a suspect when he appeared on the surveillance footage at stores in a Waldorf, MD, shopping center, where he charged more than $800 worth of merchandise to the carjacking victim’s credit card, the charging documents state.

Govan was arrested near his home in White Plains, MD on Nov. 2, 2012.