WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:

PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that Mory Kante, 21, a French national illegally in the U.S., who has been residing in Wilmington, Delaware, was sentenced today to 13 years in prison and five years of supervised release by United States District Judge Gerald J. Pappert for the carjacking and attempted carjacking of two women in one night.

The defendant was arrested on a criminal complaint and warrant in January of this year and charged by indictment the same month. He pleaded guilty in June to carjacking, attempted carjacking, and using, carrying, and brandishing a fi...