THE CAMRY TAKEDOWN: TENNESSEE MAN SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS FOR ARMED CARJACKING IN MEMPHIS

Memphis has seen its share of violence, but the early hours of April 9, 2024, cut through the routine chaos when a 23-year-old armed offender escalated a quiet moment in a parked car into a high-risk felony that now carries a federal prison sentence measured in decades. The Justice Department announced that Jadakiss Johnson, of Tennessee, has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for his role in a gunpoint carjacking, a crime that federal prosecutors say reflects a violent pattern that has followed him for years.

According to evidence presented in court, the victim was seated inside her 2023 Toyota Camry when Johnson and his co-defendant, Tyrone White, executed a coordinated attack. Johnson drove the pair to the target. White approached the driver’s door, leveled a firearm directly at the victim, and ordered her out of the car. The threat was immediate, the weapon was real, and compliance was the only option. The car was taken within seconds.

But the criminal trail didn’t end at the scene. When law enforcement confronted Johnson later, he attempted to evade capture — first by fleeing in a separate vehicle, then on foot. Inside the abandoned getaway car, officers discovered multiple firearms and a machinegun-conversion device, a piece of contraband designed to turn a standard weapon into an automatic one. For prosecutors, this was not an isolated snapshot — it was part of a longer pattern.

Johnson was already forbidden from possessing firearms after multiple violent felony convictions. Under federal sentencing guidelines, he was classified as a career offender, with a record that included aggravated assaults and other acts of violence. Prosecutors argued that, even behind bars, his behavior reflected deep-rooted aggression. During sentencing, the government submitted evidence that Johnson assaulted another inmate while in custody and maintained consistent access to firearms before his latest arrest.

Johnson’s trajectory came to a legal halt when he pleaded guilty on August 25 to aiding and abetting carjacking and aiding and abetting the use of a firearm during a crime of violence — charges that carry heavy federal weight.

His co-defendant, Tyrone White, pleaded guilty to the same charges earlier and received a sentence of more than nine years in federal prison. Together, the two are now locked into long-term federal custody, removed from a gravitational pull of Memphis crime that federal authorities have been working to dismantle.

The case was prosecuted under the Violent Crime Initiative in Memphis, a federal-state partnership aimed at targeting high-risk offenders whose criminal histories and access to weapons fuel cycles of violence across the region. Federal prosecutors noted that using federal statutes — especially those related to armed robbery and firearms — has become a critical tool in removing repeat violent offenders from the community for extended periods.

The investigation was led by the ATF and the Memphis Police Department, with prosecutors from the Justice Department’s Violent Crime and Racketeering Section and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Tennessee presenting the case.

For the victim, the confrontation lasted minutes. For Johnson, the consequences now extend twenty years into the future — a federal sentence shaped not just by the carjacking itself, but by years of violence, access to weapons, and conduct that prosecutors argued showed no regard for public safety.

The cycle of armed intimidation and repeat violence will be met with federal intervention, and those who weaponize fear on Memphis streets will face consequences far beyond the city’s boundaries.

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