The Washington Post - 22.02.2020

B4 eZ sU the washington post.saturday, february 22 , 2020

BY DAN MORSE

Two men pleaded guilty friday

for their role in a dramatic crime

trend in and around Washington:

Steal pickup truck, ram truck into

convenience store, dislodge cash

machine, drive off with it.

“It’s bold, it’s brash, it’s com-

pletely dangerous,” said mont-

gomery County’s top prosecutor,

John mcCarthy. “I t hink t he whole

thing is crazy.”

Deandre Jackson, 28, of Upper

marlboro, and omar Barnes, 29,

of Southeast Washington, face

recommended sentencing ranges

of six-to- 16 years and 16-to-26

years, respectively.

They pleaded guilty friday to

hauling an ATm that held $68, 480

from a 7-Eleven in the fairland

area of montgomery County last

year.

They also pleaded guilty to try-

ing to steal an ATm five days later

from another 7-Eleven. That time,

they were caught by police who

had become so frustrated with the

trend that they set up undercover

surveillance teams around cer-

tain stores.

A third partner in their efforts,

Janarro Hewett, 28, of Hyattsville,

pleaded guilty last year and was

sentenced t o eight y ears in prison.

rand Lucey, a n attorney for one

of the defendants, said friday his

client was sorry.

“mr. Jackson has accepted re-

sponsibly and is very remorseful

for his role in these incidents,”

Lucey said. “No weapons were

used. No one was injured. And

that was very much by design.”

In court documents filed last

spring, montgomery County de-

tectives said that 18 times over t he

previous year, thieves in the

Washington area had used stolen

pickup trucks to crash through

storefronts to steal ATms.

It is not known if Jackson,

Barnes and Hewett were tied to

any other heists. Police have said

there are other crews engaged in

the practice.

The bold crimes are prompting

store owners around the country

to take “preparations and coun-

termeasures,” s aid David N. Tente,

executive director of the ATm In-

dustry Association.

Two key methods: having stur-

dy posts, known as bollards, erect-

ed in front of stores; and fastening

ATms t o the floor or wall in a more

secure way than regular bolts.

According to court records, af-

ter hoisting the ATms onto a sto-

len pickup, the robbers flee the

scene quickly and get to work

trying to pull out the cash.

“With the right tools, it may

only take minutes to open up an

ATm vault,” T ente said in an email.

Store owners are also getting

machines with GPS devices that

track the unit when it starts to

move. “Sometimes you can get the

police on top of this quickly,” T ente

said.

In court friday, Assistant

State’s Attorney Sheila Bagheri

summarized the cases against

Jackson and Barnes.

Shortly after 3 a.m. on may 2,

two men walked into a 7-Eleven

along Te ch road in the fairland

area of the county. They wore

black hoodies, black masks and

black clothes, and jumped over

the counter and forced two clerks

to the ground. one of the men

tried to spray paint over surveil-

lance camera l enses, but d idn’t g et

one of them covered, according to

Bagheri.

Video captured a ford f-350

accelerate into the store, going

backward. Three men then l oaded

the ATm onto t he truck and d rove

away, said Bagheri.

Investigators determined that

a short time later, the men trans-

ferred the ATm to a difference

vehicle.

five days later, on may 7, mont-

gomery County police set up sur-

veillance outside a 7-Eleven on

Lockwood Drive.

They stopped a robbery, Bagh-

eri said, just as a stolen truck was

about to ram into the store. Jack-

son and Barnes were caught after

a foot chase, she said. Hewett

drove off in the truck and was

caught after a police chase, the

prosecutor said.

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Maryland

Two plead guilty in ‘brash’ ATM heist

BY LAURA VOZZELLA

RICHMOND — After a republi-
can state senator lost his bid to
give raises to sheriff’s deputies a
year sooner than proposed, Sen-
ate majority Leader richard L.
Saslaw approached him on the
floor to explain why.
“Hey Stanley,” Saslaw (D-fair-
fax) said to Sen. Bill Stanley of
franklin County on Thursday,
according to an account Stanley
later posted on facebook. “ You
want to know why your sheriffs
didn’t get a raise? — because they
came to our committees and said
that they
weren’t going
to enforce our
laws.”
Saslaw, who
confirmed
Stanley’s ac-
count, was re-
ferring to the
Second
Amendment
“sanctuary” movement that has
swept the commonwealth since
Democrats won control of the
state House and Senate on the
promise of enacting gun control.
more than 110 cities, towns
and counties have declared
themselves sanctuaries from any
new firearms restrictions, with
some local sheriffs saying they
will refuse to enforce gun laws
passed by the new Democratic
majority. Attorney General mark
r. Herring (D) has said the
proclamations have no legal
force.
“I was shocked that the Demo-
crats are n ow punishing o ur local
Sheriff ’s Departments (by elimi-
nating a pay raise for them), for
the their choice to protect and
defend our citizens’ Second
Amendment rights,” Stanley
wrote in his facebook post.
“Democrats want to restrict a
citizen’s right to protect them-
selves, but won’t pay our sheriffs’
deputies to protect Virginians.
Hypocrisy has a name.”
By friday, 14,000 people had
shared Stanley’s story.
Saslaw confirmed the conver-
sation in an interview in the
Virginia State Capitol.
“A ll I said was a lot of people
were upset that these people
came in and said they weren’t
going to enforce our laws. That’s
all. That’s it,” Saslaw said.
Asked if he stood by his com-
ments, Saslaw said, “I said it.”
Stanley sought a raise for
sheriffs deputies by p roposing a n
amendment to Virginia’s two-
year spending plan, which did
not provide for a raise in the first
year.
He said some deputies earn so
little that they qualify for food
stamps.
The Senate’s two-year budget
plan would give deputies a $200
bonus in the first year, which
would cost $2.6 million, and a
3 percent raise in the second.
Stanley wanted to launch the
raise in the first year, which
would have cost an extra $9 mil-
lion.
While d iscussing t he proposed
amendment on the floor, Demo-
crats said the state did not have
the m oney to fund the raise. They
did not mention the promises by
various “sanctuary sheriffs” to
defy any new state firearms laws.
But Stanley said he believes
that was their motivation.
“This was not a wisecrack,”
Stanley said. “I said, ‘ Is t his really
the reason?’ I absolutely believe
that’s the reason. I consider him
a friend, but that was not a joke.
He was serious.”
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Virginia

‘Sanctuary’

movement

blamed for

raise denial

Saslaw

Senate’s top Democrat

decries sheriffs who

won’t enforce gun laws

took out the 2045 deadline for

elimination of fossil fuels. But it

still commits the city to establish-

ing energy-efficiency require-

ments f or every building, b anning

natural gas in new construction,

and “dramatically” reducing the

use of fossil-fuel-powered appli-

ances.

Discussions are ongoing. At a

city council meeting Wednesday

night, slightly more than a dozen

residents came to show support

for the resolution, urging officials

not to make further compromises.

mike Tidwell, a Ta koma Park

resident who is founder of the

Chesapeake Climate Action Net-

work, said he wants to see the

2045 deadline put back into the

resolution. Drew Kodjak, an envi-

ronmental a ttorney who also lives

in the city, said he thinks 2045 is

too long to wait.

“If you believe the Intergovern-

mental Panel on Climate Change,

fossil-fuel free has to become a

reality in the next one or two

decades — and not just in Ta ko-

ma,” said Nilles of the rocky

mountain Institute. “We don’t re-

ally have a choice.”

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ing fears of an impending “LED

police.” most opponents, he said,

seem to take issue with the pro-

posals for new mandates, which

has also emerged as the flash

point elsewhere.

In Bellingham, Wash., where

officials are debating a ban on all

fossil-fuel-based residential heat-

ing, natural gas companies have

launched a $1 million campaign

to promote their product. In

Berkeley, a r estaurant trade group

is suing the city over its ban on

new gas pipelines, which went

into effect Jan. 1.

“Yes, there are ways that we

could soften [these policies] and

make them more palatable....

But we know that voluntary pro-

grams are not going to get us to

net zero,” said Ta koma Park sus-

tainability manager Gina ma-

thias.

officials are looking carefully

at the impact of climate require-

ments o n low-income households,

Stewart said, and the city is creat-

ing a “sustainability assistance

fund” t o help residents and busi-

nesses transition from f ossil fuels.

A revised copy of the resolu-

tion, released earlier this week,

this ban further, in part because

there is relatively little new con-

struction in the city.

The idea, as laid out in the first

draft of the city’s climate resolu-

tion, is to take advantage of the

natural life cycle of gas applianc-

es. Starting from 2030, all water

heaters, space heaters and stoves

that rely on gas would have to be

replaced with alternatives.

fossil-fuel-based leaf blowers

would be phased out with incen-

tive programs and eventually o ut-

lawed, while gas s tations would be

asked to convert to electric charg-

ing or relocate. The proposal pro-

motes electric vehicle use but does

not include a ban on vehicles that

run on fossil fuels.

In the shorter term, the city

would mandate t hat all buildings,

including single-family homes,

meet specific energy require-

ments by 2029 and upgrade all

lighting t o LED by 2022.

These ideas have received

strong support from Ta koma

Park’s resident-led Committee on

the Environment and other advo-

cacy groups, including the youth-

led Sunrise movement. But even

in left-leaning Ta koma Park, the

resolution has detractors.

“The number of times the word

‘require’ is used in this is stun-

ning,” said resident maxine Hil-

lary at a public hearing. She criti-

cized the fossil fuel ban as “insen-

sitive and draconian” and de-

nounced the proposal for

mandatory composting, stating:

“Don’t tell me what to do with my

table s craps.”

John Ackerly, w ho co-chairs the

environmental committee, said

he has been “shocked” by friends

and neighbors in the city skeptical

of the resolution, with some shar-

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BY MARTIN WEIL

In many a Washington winter,

a day occurs, or two or three,

when the m ercury n ever makes it

above 32 degrees, and ice en-

crusts the area. But this is not

such a winter, and while friday

had its cold hours, it was still not

a full day of freezing cold.

Whatever may make this wan-

ing winter memorable, it seems

increasingly unlikely to be pro-

tracted periods of icy immobility.

from 2 to 10 a.m., the official

thermometer at r eagan National

Airport read in the 20s, falling as

low as 24 degrees.

T hat is in no way tropical, but

it is still two degrees above this

winter’s lowest. In the afternoon,

the increasingly bright sunshine

of late february helped boost the

mercury to a high of 39.

Also, friday conformed to the

winter’s theme of snowlessness,

although it had its moments.

It m ay be noted that according

to National Weather Service

data, flakes could be seen at

National before 1 a.m.

They did not, however,

amount t o enough to m easure. In

official accounts, the quantity

that fell was called a “trace.”

meanwhile, another milestone

in our march to spring is to be

recorded Saturday.

According to Naval observato-

ry d ata, the amount of daylight i n

Washington is to grow to exactly

11 hours Saturday, with a 6:5 2

a.m. sunrise and 5:52 p.m. sun-

set.

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DEATHNOTICE

LARRYBRACE(Age63)

LarryBracetransitionedonFebruary14,2020.

Heissurvivedbyson,SeanHill(Kalifa);grand-

sonSidney;granddaughter,Skylar;brothers

EarnestandClarence;sister,Birthaandahost

offamilyandfriends.Servicewillbeheld

Monday,February24, 2020 Viewing 10 a.m.

Service 11 a.m.UnionWesleyA.M.E.Zion

Church1860MichiganAvenueN.E.,Washing-

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BRACE

ROBERTJ. BRUNETT(Age90)

OfFairfax,VA,passedawayonFriday,Feb-

ruary14,2020.Belovedhusbandandsweet-

heartofCarolWagner;devotedfatherofMarie

Barnett(Tony),JennyEllison(Rob),andthe

lateMarkBrunett;grandfatherofCarolynand

JackBarnettandEricaandAudreyEllisonand

brother-in-lawofMaryannPhippsaswellas

uncletoherchildren,BrandonandLauren.

Hewasprecededindeathbyhisformer

wifeFrancesJenkinsBrunett,motherofhis

children.

BobhadalongtimecareeratRiggsNational

Bank,Washington,DCwherehemetCarol.

HeservedasaColonelintheUSArmyand

hadworkedduringhisretirementforthe

SunriseLivingfacilitieswheretheresidents

couldrelatetohiswhitishhair.Healsoleaves

manyfamilyandfriendsinJabing,Austriaalong

withtreasuredlocalfriends.Duringhislifehe

lookedforwardtooverseastripstoGermany

andAustriatoenjoythesights,family,friends

andslivovitz.Hecollectedbaseballcapsover

theyearsandbicentennialquartersasaretiree

andenjoyedtheprocessofbuyingrollsof

quarters,huntingforthe 1976 coinsandshin-

ingthem.

AmemorialvisitationwillbeheldSunday,

February23, 2020 from1to3p.m.atMoney

andKingFuneralHome,1 71 W.MapleAve.,

Vienna,VA.IntermentwillbeheldatArling-

tonNationalCemeteryatalaterdate.The

onlineguestbookisavailableatwww,mon-

eyandking.com.Inlieuofflowers,givehim

agoodthought;memorialdonationscanbe

senttoanychildrens-focusedcharityoranimal

organization.

BRUNETT

GERALDCARMEN

GeraldCarmenofRockville,MD

passedawayonFebruary20,

2020.Hewasbornin 1931 in

Brooklyn,NYandhaslivedin

Rockvilleforthepast 45 years.

HewasthesonofIrvingand

Dora(Schneider)Carmenandthehusband

ofthelatePhyllis(Rutta)Carmen,with

whomheshared 49 yearsofmarriage.He

issurvivedbyhischildren,MiriamCohen

(Barry)andDavidCarmen(Shari);hisgrand-

children,Hillary,Eva,ElyseandJulie;his

great-granddaughter,Lyla;andhisbrother,

AllenCarmen.Heispredeceasedbyhis

sister,CarolAckerman.Geraldattended

CityCollegeofNewYorkandwasinthe

USArmyduringtheKoreanWar.After

movingtoMaryland,heworkedforthe

MayCompanyfor 26 yearsasanInternal

Auditor.Uponretiring,heembracedmany

volunteeropportunitiesincludingmaking

anddistributingfoodatMartha'sTable

for 14 years.Healsolovedtakinglong

walks,traveling,andattendingclassesat

theOsherInstituteatJohnsHopkinsUniver-

sity.FuneralserviceswillbeheldSunday,

February23, 10 a.m.atJudeanMemorial

GardensChapel, 16225 BatchellorsForest

Rd,Olney,MD20832;withintermentto

follow.Shivawillbeobservedatthehome

ofMimCohenfromSundaythroughTues-

daywithminyanat7:30p.m.Donationsin

Gerald'smemorycanbemadetoMartha's

Table.ServicesentrustedtoSagelBloom-

fieldDanzanskyGoldbergFuneralCare.

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CARMEN

organizing trips to Florence,Paestum,

Prague,Tunis,andParisforNATOwivesready

toexploretheworld.JaneandPeter’slifelong

lovestorybeganin 1942 inPearlHarbor,

wherebothoftheirNavyofficerfatherswere

stationed.SoonaftertheDecember7attack,

bothfamilieswereevacuatedandsothetwo

infants"met"ontheSSLurline.Littledid

anyoneknowthatonedaytheywouldmarry.

Theymetagainin1956,whileJanewasat

MaryWashingtonCollegeaftergraduating

fromSt.AgnesSchoolinAlexandria.Peter

askedhertoaChristmasdanceattheNaval

Academyandsoon,thetwoweregoing

steady.Theymarriedin 1958 andontheir

firstanniversary,thefirstofthreedaughters,

Lida,wasborn.Asayoungmother,Jane

modeledthewondersofaliferichlylivedand

raisedLida,Tr ennie,andJamietobeequally

curious,optimisticcitizensoftheworld.She

andtheyoungfamilytraveledtheglobe,

livingupanddownbothUScoastsandin

19 localesincludingItaly,Iran,andGreece.

Alongtheway,shecollectedtreasuresand

hobbies,learningcalligraphy;leadingclasses

inRenaissanceart,andcreatingscoresof

handmadeChristmasornamentsforlegions

offriendsandfans.

JanewasborntoCaptainJamesDuGué

FergusonandFrancesBarrowFergusonin

1938.SheissurvivedbysiblingsFrances

RowanofReston,VA;SusanPelosiofSan

Francisco,CA;andJamesFergusonofVir-

giniaBeach,VA,aswellasbyhusbandPeter

AustinJunghansofAlexandria,VA;daughters

LidaFergusonJunghansofArlington,MA;

FrancesTr enholmeJunghansofDundee,

Scotland;andJamieJunghansShawofMill

Valley,CA.Sheis alsosurvivedbyherbeloved

granddaughter,EmmaDuGuéPerrowof

Arlington,MAandhertwodotingsons-in-

law,JeffreyMurerofDundee,Scotlandand

MichaelShawofMillValley,CA.

AservicewillbeheldattheWashington

NationalCathedralonFriday,March6, 2020

at 11 a.m.ACelebrationofLifememorialwill

beheldlaterintheSpringasJaneislaidto

restatArlingtonNationalCemetery.

Inlieuofflowers,thefamilyasksthatdona-

tionsbemadetoWashingtonNationalCathe-

dral.

JANEDUGUÉFERGUSONJUNGHANS

(Age81)

PassedawaypeacefullyonFebruary12,

2020 inAlexandria,VA,surroundedbyher

adoringfamily.Avivacious,playfulsoul,Jane

embracedlife,love,friendship,andfaith

withlimitlessdevotion.Acareertourguide,

shewasnamedEmeritusCertifiedMaster

Guidein 2018 andhonoredasGuideofthe

Yearin2013.Theseandotherhonorswere

bestowedforherencyclopedicknowledgeof

thecity’shistoryandlore,alwaysimparted

withherunmatchedgiftforstorytellingand

hertrademarkwit.Whileleadingtourswas

hervocation,it wasalsoherspiritualcalling.

Whenshewasn’tcaptivatingtouristsat

Ford’sTheater,thememorials,ortheCapitol,

she wasenthralling school groupsand

seniorsalikeattheNationalCathedralwith

heranimatednarrativesofthemoonrock

setinstainedglass,thecryptholdingthe

remainsofHelenKeller;andcountlessfacts

abouteverygloriousfacetofthenation’s

houseofworship,where,asshewasquick

tosay,all arewelcome.

Janebeganherlifelongpassionforleading

toursinNaples,Italy,whereshearrivedas

ayoungNavywifetoherbelovedhusband,

CDRPeterJunghans,USN.Whileothernewly

transplantedfamiliesadjustedtoculture

shock,Janedovein,learningItalianand

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DEATHNOTICE

CECILG. CHRISTIAN,JR.(Age87)

CecilGChristian,Jr., aresidentofColumbia,

MD,diedonFebruary7, 2020 atGilchristHos-

piceCareFacility.Christiangraduatedfrom

HowardUniversityin 1953 andretiredfromthe

USArmyasalieutenantcolonelaftera20-

yearcareer.Subsequently,hehada21-year

federalciviliancareerattheNationalArchives

andtheImmigration&NaturalizationService.

Hewaspredeceasedbyhiswifeof 48 years,

Marian,andissurvivedbythreechildren,

fivegrandchildrenandsixgreat-grandchildren.

Visitation4to8p.m.,Friday,February21,2020,

VaughnGreenFuneralHomeWest,Baltimore,

MD.Wake9:30a.m.andFuneral 11 a.m.,

respectively,Saturday,February22,2020,atSt

JohnBaptistChurch,Columbia,MD.Interment

atArlingtonNationalCemeteryatalaterdate.

CHRISTIAN

ERWINLEEDeHAVEN

ErwinLeeDeHaven ofGaithersburg,MD,

passedawayonJanuary27,2020.Mr.DeHaven

wasborninMartinsburg,WestVirginiaand

wasthesonofLeslieandVirginiaDeHaven.

Heleavesbehindhisbelovedwifeof 67 years,

MaryLouDeHaven;hischildrenCarolDeHaven

(JohnDrury)andScottDeHaven(Christy);sis-

tersJaniceMartin,NormaParker;andcousin

PhyllisYingling.

Mr.DeHavenwasaWorldWarIIU.S.Army

AirForceveteran,amechanicalengineer,and

retiredasSeniorVicePresidentofQuanta

Systems.Hisinterestswereaviation,auto-

mobilerestoration,worldtravel,andanimal

rescueandwelfare.

AcelebrationofhislifewillbeheldatStPaul’s

UnitedMethodistChurchinKensington,MDon

February29, 2020 at 11 a.m.Inlieuofflowers,

thefamilyrequeststhatanydonationsbe

madetoSt.Paul’sUnitedMethodistChurchor

ananimalwelfareorganizationofpreference.

DeHAVEN

DEATHNOTICE

LOTENSEY,JR.

September15, 1946 –January18, 2020

LotwasbornanddiedinWashington,DC,

butgrewupinalltheseaportsoftheworld,

ashisparentstraveledtheworldwiththeU.S.

Navy.HereturnedtotheWashingtonareaand

attendedWakefieldHighSchoolandgraduated

fromEpiscopalHighSchool.

Drawntotheoceanandsurfing,heattended

CaliforniaTechUniversity,thengraduatedfrom

MonmouthCollegeinIllinois.Hereceivedhis

MastersDegreefromGeorgetownUniversity.

LotworkedasaTaxAccountantfor 30 years.

Heretiredin2001.Hisbrilliantmindkepthim

activeintheTaxCommunityuntilhisdeath.

Lotis overwhelminglymissedbySueHamilton,

hisBelovedPartnerofmorethan 30 years.He

issurvivedbycousin,NadineEnseyandher

children,SharlaandCharles.Heisprecededin

deathbyhisfather,AdmiralLotEnseyUSN,and

hismother,KateEnsey.

Family and friends are invited to Lot’s

CelebrationofLifeonLeapYearDay–Leapfor

Lot!Saturday,February29,from4to8p.m.,

atCedarKnollHistoricInn, 9030 LuciaLane,

Alexandria,Virginia,22308.Wewillcelebrate

Lot’squickwit,supersenseofhumor,hislove

ofthewaterandourmosttreasuredmemories

ofourDearFriend.

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